{"id":164441,"date":"2017-04-01T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=164441"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:15:52","slug":"abortion-live-birth-dilemma-haunted-abortion-profiteers-since-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-live-birth-dilemma-haunted-abortion-profiteers-since-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Infants born alive during abortion have haunted abortion profiteers since legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The abortion industry would like the public to believe that babies born alive after abortion attempts rarely occur. However, research shows that the so-called abortion live-birth dilemma has been haunting abortion profiteers since the days of legalization.<\/p>\n

April 1973, Greater Bakersfield Hospital, Bakersfield, Calif.: A 4 1\/2-pound infant was born live following a saline abortion (induced by an injection of salt solution) performed by Dr. Xavier Hall Ramirez. Informed by phone, Dr. Ramirez ordered two nurses to discontinue administering oxygen to the baby. His instructions were countermandated by another doctor; the baby survived and later was placed for adoption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This above case was one of many highlighted by the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a> in a 1981 series entitled The Dreaded Complication.<\/p>\n

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The Dreaded Complication<\/p><\/div>\n

Another example from the report described what a Nebraska abortion doctor ordered a nurse, who found a live baby boy crying following a saline abortion attempt, to do. She told the paper the following:\u00a0“He told me to leave it where it was, just to watch it for a few minutes, that it would probably die in a few minutes.”<\/p>\n

In another case from 1974, the paper recounted the prostaglandin abortion of a baby who survived the procedure, only to die later: “One of the nurses said that the baby was alive. They took the baby out of the room. He never did cry, he just made some kind of a noise.”<\/p>\n

A young resident was the first doctor to arrive. After detecting a strong heartbeat, she took matters into her own hands. She clamped the umbilical cord and sent the baby to intensive care.<\/p>\n

“It was a shock, a totally unique emergency situation, very upsetting to all of us,” the doctor said. “Some people have disagreed with me [about ordering intensive care for an abortion live birth] but that seems to me the only way you can go. It’s like watching a drowning. You act. You don’t have the luxury of calling around and consulting. You institute life-preserving measures first and decide about viability later on.”<\/p>\n

In 1989,\u00a0 Pennsylvania abortion doctor Joseph Melnick was convicted<\/a> of infanticide after it was proven that a baby he aborted survived the abortion.\u00a0Hospital staffers where the abortion occurred said that they had detected a heartbeat and saw the baby move and gasp. For this crime, Live Action News contributor Sarah Terzo reported<\/a>\u00a0that the judge gave him no fine or jail time \u2013 only probation and community service.<\/p>\n

By the 1990’s additional incidents of babies surviving abortion were being reported.<\/p>\n

In Florida, Miami Right to Life documented the case of a 23-week-old male with Down syndrome, who pro-lifers endearingly named “Baby Special,” after they were contacted by an anonymous caller who claimed she worked at the hospital where the incident occurred.\u00a0The witness also called the\u00a0police, telling them that the doctor smothered the baby after it lived through the abortion process.<\/p>\n

The report, which was published in the\u00a0Miami Right to Life’s<\/a>\u00a0newsletter\u00a0just after the incident, said that the medical examiner testified that the autopsy found pockets of air in the baby’s stomach and that the child had\u00a0taken a breath.<\/p>\n

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Baby Special<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhen a fetus is aborted, sometimes there is some activity in the fetus and you normally don\u2019t do anything. You let the fetus expire. The usual thing is just to take your time, don\u2019t immediately do anything,\u201d the abortionist told authorities. Authorities cleared the doctor saying there was no clear evidence that he smothered the baby.<\/p>\n

In 1993, a New York abortion doctor was convicted of performing an illegal third-trimester abortion which resulted in him severing the arm of a baby which survived his abortion attempt. The public was horrified by the story, causing the abortion doctor, Dr. Abu Hayat, to be nicknamed the Butcher of Avenue A.<\/p>\n

\"\"The baby’s 20-year-old mother, Rosa Rodriguez, was estimated to be about eight months pregnant when Hayat began the $1500.00 abortion procedure on her.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily News<\/a>, Rodriguez described being strapped in stirrups and held down by Hayat and his assistants while she begged him to stop the abortion. She testified that she no longer wanted the abortion after Hayat inserted a four-inch needle in her stomach that appeared dirty, and she began hearing women in other rooms screaming.<\/p>\n

Hayat was found guilty of assault on Rosa Rodriguez and her baby Ana Rosa.<\/p>\n

After the incident, pro-abortion talk show host, Phil Donahue had the child’s mother as well as the injured infant as a guest on his television show where he described the horror of the incident.\u00a0Despite the fact that Hayat practiced legally, Donahue attempted to spin the story as unrelated to the abortion issue. The truth is that every day, infants are ripped apart limb by limb during abortions – but the majority are not born alive.<\/p>\n