The latest investigative video from the anti-abortion group Live Action unveiled Thursday shows an Albuquerque, New Mexico abortion doctor comparing the injection used to kill a fetus to a flu shot.
The shocking video provided to Secrets features recordings from Dr. Carmen Landau, of Southwest Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a counselor employed at the same facility.
In the video, the fifth in a series meant to draw attention to the disturbing procedures at abortion clinics highlighted by the recent Philadelphia murder trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, Landau tells the investigator acting at a women seeking an abortion that the injection that will kill her baby is “like any shot, you know, like a flu shot, or a vaccine, really.” It comes as 6:20 in the video.
She adds, “it’s not like you and I [sic] where when we get a flu shot, we’re kind of, ‘Ugh!’ – not – that – that – that experience of anxiety and suffering is not – it [the baby]’s not capable of.”
The counselor in the video also dismisses the pain of the fetus in an abortion, saying, “I feel that it’s, um, necessary for the procedure to happen and, ultimately, um, safest, and kind of the most, kinda, humane way to do it, you know?”
Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said, “Our investigation has exposed the disturbing willingness of abortionists to engage in illegal and inhuman acts including misleading pregnant women, pushing them into abortion, and even infanticide. This is horrible, but Americans should know just as well the horrifying practices that are still legal, that we allow to happen every day.”
The first half of Live Action’s latest video details abortionists’ estimation of the humanity of the unborn child. Mercer assures the investigator that her 24-week baby “doesn’t even look like a baby yet.”
Overall, the new video, “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s Abortion Industry,” is a compilation of interviews with abortion doctors asked about when a fetus is considered a child and how abortions work.
The horrific details of the Dr. Kermit Gosnell trial introduced many Americans to some heavily-unpalatable themes. The abortion doctor, who was convinced of three counts of first-degree murder for killing babies after birth, used a method of termination that has been referred to as “neck snipping.” TheBlaze spoke with two pro-life leaders about this graphic method of murdering children to learn more about why abortion practitioners would use it.
It’s clear, based on what we know about Gosnell, that the cutting of the spinal cord through the neck was a procedure with the sole purpose of terminating a born baby’s life. While its purpose is easy to discern, what isn’t readily known are some of the underlying reasons why Gosnell (and according to pro-life advocates, other abortionists as well) rely upon the method.
Abortion doctors — clearly on a mission to end pregnancies — find themselves with a conundrum when a baby is born alive. With few options, it seems neck snipping is a definite way to end the lives of these children. Plus, as Crutcher also noted, the procedure reduces doctors’ chances of malpractice. Terminating a life once a baby is born is presumably easier and less risky than doing so before birth, although that doesn’t mean these babies were purposefully born in this way.
“They induce these women into labor and they’re anticipating — they’re hoping that the induction process causes the baby’s demise,” he said. “They’re not wanting the baby to come out alive — but they’re doing it that way [if they do].”
Some may wonder how a woman could allow an after-birth abortion, but Crutcher clarified one misconception that some may forget: When women go in for these procedures, they have no idea what is unfolding.
“Remember these are late-term abortions. These women are going to be under general anesthesia while this is going on,” he told TheBlaze. “If you think about it — it’s simply a logical extension or a variation of partial birth abortion.”
The neck-snipping, disturbing in its own regard, is only one troubling element, though. Crutcher also charges that others in the abortion industry have reported seeing doctors drown babies. And that’s not even the worst of it.
“It’s whatever’s necessary to kill them,” he continued. “I mean, we’ve got other people saying that they do things like grab the baby by the feet and slam its head against the counter.”
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Lila Rose, founder of Live Action, another pro-life group, also told TheBlaze that the neck-snipping is nothing new — and that it was introduced as a method for terminating lives by abortion leaders long before Gosnell’s trial took the nation by storm.
The procedure was also previously used during partial-birth abortion procedures, she said.
“It was actually a recommended way to practice late-term abortion … it was, in one sense, easy to do,” Rose added. “You didn’t have to kill the baby completely in utero.”
In a recent op-ed on the Christian Post, pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins charged that Gosnell and Karpen are not exceptions and that many other doctors use these methods. She wrote:
Pro-abortion zealots want you to believe that convicted killer Kermit Gosnell was an exception. That his “House of Horrors” was the only bad apple. But you don’t have to look far to find other Gosnells. They are lurking in communities across our nation, enabled by politicians and officials who won’t enact or enforce basic regulations and health safety standards on abortion businesses because of their own utmost devotion to abortion eugenics ideology or for fear of the powerful abortion lobby.
Late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen is one such man who has thus far escaped into the system, like Gosnell did for decades.
It’s likely that Gosnell’s case will spawn many other complaints and investigations, as advocates’ claims seem to be, at least in an anecdotal sense, corroborated. Determining how widespread the problem is will take time, research and devotion to the cause.
With Karpen standing to be the next doctor to receive scrutiny, there’s no telling who will be investigated next.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell abortion case: Why no national media spotlight?
News outlets fall all over themselves to cover horrific crimes because, frankly, there’s a big audience for sensational stories. So naturally, abortion foes have been wondering why the national media — this newspaper included — haven’t jumped all over the indictment and trial of Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell in Philadelphia.
Kermit Gosnell: Abortion Doctor Charged With 8 Counts Of Murder
A Pennsylvania abortion doctor accused of running a “house of horrors” is going on trial on eight counts of murder. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, along with being charged for killing a pregnant refugee and seven newborns, is also facing a separate trial on prescription drug charges.
According to CNN, the “house of horrors,” the clinic which he owned and ran, performed abortions past the 24-week limit. Sometimes, authorities say, the doctor even terminated pregnancies as late as eight months into the pregnancy. Allegedly, he used scissors to sever the spinal cords of newborns as they emerged from their mothers while they were still alive.
According to Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, “A doctor who cuts into the necks severing the spinal cords of living, breathing babies, who would survive with proper medical attention, is committing murder under the law.”
Gosnell, who has pleaded not guilty, however, doesn’t see it that way. Instead, he sees himself as a medical missionary, helping the poor, immigrants, and teens who could not get abortions elsewhere.
“I feel in the long term I will be vindicated … I aspire to perfection, certainly for my patients,” Gosnell said in a March 2010 interview, following the federal drug raid that led to the revelation regarding the allegations of horrific medical abuses.
In the same interview, he added that he was “a positive force in the community” and was only helping the vulnerable teens and women get medical care.
However, it seems Gosnell failed in attaining perfection or positivity, as many of his patients were left with infections, perforated bowels, and other injuries after the “abortions” were performed by untrained and unlicensed staff.
Eight out of the nine clinic workers who were also arrested have pleaded guilty, three of them to third-degree murder. The includes an unlicensed doctor, Steven Massof, who admitted to using scissors to sever the spines of over 100 babies for a few hundred dollars a week. Gosnell’s wife, a cosmetologist, has also pleaded guilty to performing illegal and late-term abortions.
The eight deaths Gosnell is being charged for are babies born in the sixth, seventh and eight months of pregnancy who were killed, and a 41-year old mother who died of an anesthetics overdose during an abortion in her second trimester.
His federal drug charges also await him, as he made millions over the years from a side practice to his abortion clinic, where his staffers allegedly dispensed his pre-signed prescriptions for highly addictive painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet.
At the scene of the crime — Gosnell’s clinic — authorities found bags and bottles holding aborted fetuses around the building. According to CNN, jars containing severed feet of babies were lined on a shelf and the furniture and equipment was blood-stained and broken.
A gag order has been imposed on attorneys and all others involved in the case, making it unclear how court meetings went last week.
However, Philadelphia District Attorney Williams is already set in his case — “It’s just homicide. It’s just murder.”
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