{"id":199109,"date":"2019-03-28T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=199109"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T18:21:30","slug":"pro-abortion-obgyn-oppose-protecting-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-obgyn-oppose-protecting-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this pro-abortion OBGYN group really opposes protecting abortion survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The pro-abortion<\/a>\u00a0American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recently issued a strongly worded statement<\/a> in opposition to an initiative by Texas Republicans to pass HB 16, which would strengthen protections for abortion survivors<\/span>. <\/span>The proposed law<\/a>, which would formally create a physician-patient relationship between abortionists and babies who survive abortion, establishes severe civil penalties<\/span>\u00a0for abortionists who fail to provide the same standard of care to survivors of abortion as any other infant born at that gestational age. The law would also enable anonymous reporting of non-compliance to the Texas state attorney general.<\/span><\/p>\n

In opposing what should be, by any reasonable measure, a non-controversial anti-infanticide law, ACOG uses arguments that are deceptive, unfounded, and even self-contradictory. Here are some of the more flagrant examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

ACOG Claim #1<\/strong>: “The bill relies on non-scientific information.”<\/strong> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, ACOG asserts that “the idea that physicians deliver, and then kill or neglect treating, a viable fetus is unfounded and dangerous misinformation.” Overwhelming evidence<\/a> shows this statement to be simply false<\/span>. One must look no further than America’s most infamous case, that of notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell. As the Grand Jury in Gosnell\u2019s case<\/a> so aptly put it,<\/span>\u00a0\u201cThis case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy \u2013 and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And Gosnell is not an outlier, contrary to what abortion activists claim. Live Action<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has uncovered many disturbing instances in which abortionists and their staff have clearly indicated that babies born alive after abortion attempts would be killed or left to die. The Family Planning Associates Medical Group in Phoenix, Arizona; Cesare Santangelo\u2019s late-term Washington Surgi-Clinic in Washington, D.C.; Emily\u2019s Women\u2019s Center in the Bronx; abortionists that former StemExpress technician-turned-whistleblower Holly O\u2019Donnell worked with — these are just a sampling of abortionists around the country whom Live Action found to quietly advocate either killing or leaving abortion survivors to die. ACOG\u2019s assertion that there is \u201cno evidence of a pattern of infants being \u2018born alive\u2019 after an abortion, much less of doctors neglecting treatment in those circumstances\u201d is at best ignorant and, at worst, dangerously misleading.<\/span><\/p>\n