{"id":15911,"date":"2013-03-02T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/?p=15911"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:45:34","slug":"phoenix-az-late-term-abortion-center-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/phoenix-az-late-term-abortion-center-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix, AZ late-term abortion center exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY 2, 2013<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT: \u00a0MEDIA@LIVEACTION.ORG<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0PHOENIX, AZ LATE-TERM ABORTION CENTER EXPOSED\u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<i>Third Undercover Video Investigation Exposes Abortion Doctor and Clinic Worker Who Would Leave Babies Born Alive from Failed Abortion to Die<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Six-Month Investigation Reveals Illegal, Inhuman, and Gruesome Practices at Abortion Centers across the Country<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Arlington, VA: Live Action today released a third undercover video exposing Phoenix, AZ late-term abortion doctor Laura Mercer 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, found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/inhuman\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.liveaction.org\/inhuman<\/a>, involving the illegal and inhuman practices of late-term abortion centers, as well as describing in horrific detail what happens to the mother and baby in a late-term abortion.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the undercover investigator what would happen if the baby were to survive the abortion, Linda, an abortion center counselor, admits they would not help the baby:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sometimes they are [alive], yeah. But it doesn&#8217;t&#8211;it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that it will come out whole. \u2018Cause they use suction, plus they use instruments so sometimes the fetuses don&#8217;t come out&#8211;you know, it\u2019s not complete\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Investigator:<i> But if it does come out whole<\/i><i>\u2026I mean, are&#8211;will they resuscitate it? Like, will I have to take care of it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Linda:<i> Uh-uh\u2026 No\u2026<\/i><i>They do not resuscitate.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis video is just the latest evidence of a disturbing and horrifying trend occurring inside America&#8217;s abortion industry,\u201d said Lila Rose of Lila Action.\u00a0 \u201cThe horrors of the Kermit Gosnell trial are a widespread problem in this industry. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dismembering and destroying innocent children, leaving born babies to die, injecting poison into the chest of a tiny child so that he slowly dies in his own mother&#8217;s womb &#8211; this is all standard operating procedure in the abortion industry.\u00a0 But these children are human beings. They have the same basic human rights and deserve the same protections all of us enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Mercer tells an undercover Live Action investigator who is 24 weeks pregnant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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\u2019t be movement. There shouldn\u2019t be any of those things\u2026 Yes we induce a demise&#8211;an intrauterine demise&#8230; Um, death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then the Live Action investigator asks whether an ambulance should be called if the mother goes into labor during the two-day procedure. Dr. Mercer instructs the investigator not to call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, call us first&#8230;if you showed up in an average emergency room with an emergency room physician who&#8217;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\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Investigator: <i>So they would basically like try to take care of it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mercer:<b> <\/b>Right they would intervene and do all kinds of crazy things that you don\u2019t need to have done to you&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Live Action President Lila Rose condemned the \u201cbarbaric, inhuman, and deeply disturbing\u201d practices espoused by Dr. Mercer and the late-term abortion center staff at Family Planning Associates Medical Group. \u201cThe testimony we&#8217;ve documented in this abortion facility strongly suggests that staff there are committing infanticide,\u201d said Rose.\u00a0 \u201cThe Family Planning Associates Medical Group needs to be investigated immediately, and delicensed.\u00a0 Women are at risk during these brutal procedures, and this is a matter of life and death for these children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Live Action released videos (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/inhuman\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.liveaction.org\/inhuman<\/a>) of a Bronx, NY abortion counselor describing how a born-alive baby would be placed in a jar of toxic \u201csolution\u201d to ensure death, and of a D.C. doctor who would leave a baby born alive after a botched abortion to die. The videos are part of Live Action\u2019s six-month undercover investigation shedding light on the illegal, inhuman, and gruesome practices of numerous abortion centers throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rose is calling for Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office to investigate and prosecute Dr. Mercer and the Family Planning Associates Medical Group, who 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 and put an end to illegal and inhuman practices.<\/p>\n<p>From the letter to General Holder: \u201cWe urge you, as the U.S. Attorney General, to speak out against this injustice, and to see to it that Dr. Mercer and the Family Planning Associates Medical Group are duly investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. \u2026 I hope that you will do everything in your power to speak out for victims of infanticide \u2013 both the children and the women \u2013 and to protect the human rights of our weakest citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Live Action is a youth-led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending the human rights abuse of abortion. The group uses new media to educate the public about the humanity of the unborn and investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and defenseless. More information at LiveAction.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY 2, 2013 CONTACT: \u00a0MEDIA@LIVEACTION.ORG \u00a0PHOENIX, AZ LATE-TERM ABORTION CENTER EXPOSED\u2026 \u00a0Third Undercover Video Investigation Exposes Abortion Doctor and Clinic Worker Who Would Leave Babies Born Alive from Failed Abortion to Die Six-Month Investigation Reveals Illegal, Inhuman, and Gruesome Practices at Abortion Centers across the Country Arlington, VA: Live Action today released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9553],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Phoenix, AZ late-term abortion center exposed - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/phoenix-az-late-term-abortion-center-exposed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Phoenix, AZ late-term abortion center exposed - 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