{"id":201093,"date":"2019-04-30T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=201093"},"modified":"2019-04-30T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:03:01","slug":"abortionist-refuses-malpractice-born-alive-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-refuses-malpractice-born-alive-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist fails to pay malpractice for baby born alive during abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the abortion industry continues to claim that abortion survivors \u201cdon\u2019t exist,\u201d<\/a> one abortionist’s ongoing legal dispute with the family of a girl born alive in an abortion at his facility is proof that babies do sometimes survive the “procedures” meant to kill them. Operation Rescue reports<\/a> that Florida abortionist James Scott Pendergraft IV allegedly hid financial assets in order to avoid paying the family of a girl born alive in a botched abortion. Of the almost $37 million malpractice judgment against Pendergraft, Operation Rescue reports he is personally responsible to pay almost $12 million.<\/p>\n

The case<\/a> involves a woman identified in court documents as C.H. who went to Pendergraft\u2019s Orlando Women\u2019s Center on November 15, 2001. Then 20 years old, C.H. was seeking an elective abortion at what she thought was around 18-20 weeks. She was actually more than 22 weeks pregnant. Unlicensed clinic staff administered the abortion pill RU-486 — which is not approved by for use after the tenth week of pregnancy — and other drugs, despite the fact that she was more than 22 weeks pregnant.<\/p>\n

C.H. was in severe pain and having contractions. Allegedly, abortion workers told C.H. to \u201cwalk off her labor in the parking lot, and if she didn\u2019t like that, she could leave.\u201d C.H. did leave and later went to the local hospital where her daughter J.F. was born via caesarean section.<\/p>\n

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Today, J.F. is 17 years old and reportedly continues to suffer effects of the botched abortion — a seizure disorder and physical and mental developmental delays. Although Pendergraft was serving a prison sentence for extortion at the time of J.F.\u2019s birth, jurors decided that he was responsible for the horrific injuries suffered by C.H. and her daughter because his staff was following the illegal and dangerous protocols he had established.<\/p>\n

There is evidence<\/a> that C.H.\u2019s case was not an outlier, and there may have been countless other babies born alive at Pendergraft\u2019s abortion facility. In fact, the website for the Orlando Women\u2019s Center states<\/a>, \u201cIf the labor induction method is used, there is a small chance that the baby could live for a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n