A national pro-life organization, Live Action, this week released a third undercover video which focused on a Phoenix area late-term abortion doctor and an abortion center counselor who would leave a newborn, struggling for life after a failed abortion, to die. This is the third in a series of undercover videos, involving practices in late-term abortion centers.
When asked by the undercover investigator what would happen if the baby were to survive the abortion, Linda, an abortion center counselor, says they would not help the baby:
Sometimes they are [alive], yeah. But it doesn’t–it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will come out whole. ‘Cause they use suction, plus they use instruments so sometimes the fetuses don’t come out–you know, it’s not complete…
Investigator: But if it does come out whole…I mean, are–will they resuscitate it? Like, will I have to take care of it?
Linda: Uh-uh… No… They do not resuscitate.
Rose claims that the “video is just the latest evidence of a disturbing and horrifying trend occurring inside America’s abortion industry” pointing to the Kermit Gosnell trial.
In the video, Doctor Laura Mercer tells an undercover Live Action investigator, who is 24 weeks pregnant, “We do the injection, which is a quick poke through your belly, um, and that stops the fetal heart, so that makes it so, if you were to deliver, there shouldn’t be movement. There shouldn’t be any of those things… Yes we induce a demise–an intrauterine demise… Um, death.”
When the Live Action investigator asks whether an ambulance should be called if the mother goes into labor during the two-day procedure, Mercer instructs the investigator not to call:
No, call us first…if you showed up in an average emergency room with an emergency room physician who’s not a gynecologist, probably has never seen or done a termination, they will treat you as though you are somebody with a desired pregnancy…
Investigator: So they would basically like try to take care of it.
Dr. Mercer: Right they would intervene and do all kinds of crazy things that you don’t need to have done to you…
Critics say that Live Action edited out of the video a part where the clinician says that they have never had a live birth after a botched abortion in the clinic and tells the investigator that the discussion is hypothetical.
However, Rose is calling for the U.S. Attorney’s office to investigate and prosecute Dr. Mercer and the Family Planning Associates Medical Group, who Rose says admit they violate federal law. Rose also called on local health and law enforcement officials to investigate Dr. Mercer and Family Planning Associates Medical Group.