{"id":160058,"date":"2017-04-04T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=160058"},"modified":"2017-04-04T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T20:07:38","slug":"ten-babies-born-alive-abortions-2015-3-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ten-babies-born-alive-abortions-2015-3-states\/","title":{"rendered":"10 babies born alive after abortions in 2015 – in only 3 states"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Documents from three states indicate that babies may be born alive after abortions more often then we might expect. Published data for 2015 shows that ten babies in just Florida, Minnesota, and Michigan were reported to have been born alive following an abortion attempt. The documents indicate that many more may have been born alive after abortions in previous years.<\/p>\n

FLORIDA<\/strong><\/p>\n

A report<\/a>\u00a0from the State of Florida reveals that in 2015, at least four babies survived abortion attempts that year. The information comes from a report entitled “ITOP Report of Infants Born Alive, By County Where Terminations Occurred, Florida,” on file at the Agency for Health Care Administration.<\/p>\n

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Four babies born alive after attempted abortions in Florida in 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

According to a spokesperson from the AHCA, ITOP stands for “Induced Termination of Pregnancy.” The published data<\/a>\u00a0(which only goes back to 2014) showed that three babies survived an abortion in Alachua County and one in Jackson County in 2015. That same year, 5,132 elective abortions were reportedly<\/a> performed on women during the 13th to 24th week of pregnancy.\u00a0What happened to the babies is unclear, as no additional information was available from the\u00a0report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Florida law\u00a0requires<\/a> that “[a]n infant born alive during or immediately after an attempted abortion must be immediately transported and\u00a0admitted to a hospital pursuant to s. 390.012(3)(c) or rules adopted thereunder.” The law also requires<\/a> that any employee of a hospital, physician’s office, or an abortion clinic who is aware of a violation of the born-alive law report it.<\/p>\n

Based on\u00a0data reviewed for this article, most of the cases of live births following an abortion were reported by a hospital rather than a clinic. But public reports show that abortion clinics have experienced the “dreaded complication<\/a>” of live-birth abortions as well. Live Action News has detailed<\/a> several instances<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0chilling report from an abortion clinic came in\u00a02005. It was documented in the heart-wrenching phone call below, made after a Florida woman contacted 911, reporting that\u00a0her friend’s baby was born alive and left to die:<\/p>\n