In the liberal mind of Slate's William Saletan, exposing the horrors of killing living, breathing babies and/or refusing to provide them with medical treatment after surviving a botched abortion, is worse than infanticide.
What's more disgusting than late-term abortion? This scheme to exploit it by hiring actors & secretly taping doctors. wapo.st/11wBHIW
— Will Saletan (@saletan) April 29, 2013
With the trial of Kermit Gosnell, charged with murdering babies A-G, born alive after a botched late term abortion or partial birth abortion, by "snipping" their necks, severing their spinal cords, as well as a charge of murder on a women that went to him for a late term abortion, Live Action, has started publishing videos taken undercover at other late term abortion clinics.
Sunday I published a video where an abortion clinic workers told a women if her baby was born alive at home, to "flush it," or "put it in a bag," but not to take it to a hospital because a hospital would attempt to save the child.
Live Action's next video was of Washington D.C. doctor, Cesare Santangelo, stating that if a baby survived the abortion attempt, "we would not help it."
“I mean, technically, you know, legally, we would be obligated to help it, you know, to survive, but . . . it probably wouldn’t,” Santangelo is shown telling the woman, who was 24 weeks pregnant. “It’s all in how vigorously you do things to help a fetus survive at this point.”
Video below: "Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry - Washington D.C."
It took a concentrated effort to force the media to actually cover the "House of Horrors", Gosnell trial, with some abortion supporters explaining why they didn't report on it and why they should have.
Example: Megan McArdle at The Daily Beast:
But I understand why my readers suspect me, and other pro-choice mainstream journalists, of being selective—of not wanting to cover the story because it showcased the ugliest possibilities of abortion rights. The truth is that most of us tend to be less interested in sick-making stories—if the sick-making was done by "our side."
Carl M. Cannon attempts to explain the liberal mindset of people like Slate's William Saletan and journalists that completely ignored the Kermit Gosnell trial until they were forced to cover it. Cannon explains that abortion is "Journalism's Most Sacred Cow."
So I went on television and reluctantly criticized my own employer. Looking back, we were not wrong about the need for a newspaper to encourage the free flow of ideas. But on the issue of abortion, we quite wrong about which side really wanted to chill honest and open discussion. That was our real sacred cow.To liberals like William Saletan, the video above, and the one shown on Sunday, the Kermit Gosnell atrocities and murders, are the abortion industry and pro-abortion supporters' dirty little secret and anyone reporting on the exposure of that dirty little secret must be punished for doing so.
No one ever put it quite this way, but the traditional media in this country were about to embark on an extraordinary exercise in self-censorship. It is a social experiment that has lasted up until this week, until our industry’s shame over a refusal to cover the Kermit Gosnell murder trial brought this issue to a crucible.
This isn't about the "abortion argument" and whether abortion is right or wrong.
This is about late term abortions and/or partial birth abortions that fail, where a breathing, moving, living baby is born and either murdering that child by severing the spinal cord in the case of Gosnell, or by refusing to provide medical attention and allowing that baby to suffer before dying.
Gosnell and the Live Action videos from multiple abortion clinics across the country, are not isolated cases as evidenced by a video explaining the position of the largest abortion providers in the nation, Planned Parenthood, by Alisa Laport Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliate, of what should happen to babies born alive after a botched abortion:
So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief," said Rep. Jim Boyd. "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”(Video of the quoted segment of her testimony, found here)
"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician," said Planned Parenthood lobbyist Snow.
Clinic Workers Describe Babies Born Alive
We had one saline [type of abortion] born alive. I raced to the nursery with it and put it in an incubator. I called the pediatrician to come right down, and he refused. He said, “That’s not a baby. That’s an abortion. (1)[...]
One case where a baby was born in an abortion clinic and then killed by direct action of the abortionist came to light when clinic workers revealed what happened. According to Lime 5, a book by pro-life author Mark Crutcher:
According to five abortion clinic employees, Texas abortionist John Roe 109 [pseudonym] was performing an abortion when a 1 foot long infant girl with light brown hair was born. They testified that the baby curled up in Roe’s hand and attempted to breathe as Roe held the placenta over her face. He then dropped her into a bucket of water, and several employees testified that bubbles rose to the surface. They went on to say that Roe then “dropped the fetus into a plastic bag….The bag was tied and placed at the end of the operating room… [The] sides of the bag pulsated as though someone were breathing into it. Then the bag stopped moving.” One witness said he was holding the bag in which Roe placed the infant, and later put the bag in the freezer where aborted fetuses were stored. (3)
What Live Action is doing, is showing that Kermit Gosnell was not the exception, and that is the dirtiest little secret of all.
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