{"id":213480,"date":"2019-11-06T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=213480"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:08:36","slug":"abortionist-late-term-hotel-bag-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-late-term-hotel-bag-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist completes late-term abortion in hotel room, takes baby in ‘bag’ back to facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A late-term abortion procedure committed on a nearly 23-week-old preborn baby ended with abortionist Shelley Sella delivering the infant inside a hotel room shortly after the procedure began, then transporting the baby in a “bag” back to the abortion facility. The horrific details were\u00a0unearthed in a court deposition in the rape case of Eric Jerome Lacy<\/a>, \u00a0and were made public by Jamie Jeffries, owner of the blog\u00a0ProLifeWife<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sella works for notorious late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd at Southwestern Women\u2019s Options (SWO) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the victim was taken, according to the deposition passed on to Live Action News by Jeffries.\u00a0SWO commits multi-day late-term abortions, noting on its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0that it offers “no overnight accommodations,” but claims “[s]everal hotels in the area offer discounted rates for a medical stay….”<\/p>\n

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Southwestern Women’s Options Late-term abortion clinic uses local hotels to accommodate patients<\/p><\/div>\n

Lacy<\/a> was arrested in 2018 after Arkansas officials discovered that he impregnated his 12-year-old step daughter and attempted to force her to abort the baby. According to Eldorado News<\/a>, “The assault was discovered when the child\u2019s mother learned she was pregnant. The woman had sought medical attention for the pre-teen, who had reportedly complained of stomach pains for about a month.”<\/p>\n

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Eric Jerome Lacy<\/p><\/div>\n

Court documents surrounding the case indicated that the abuse began at the end of 2017, and due to threats, the child did not tell her mother. After forcing the victim to take a home pregnancy test, Lacy made the victim “drink wine in an effort to cause her to lose the baby,” because he\u00a0“need to knock it out of her,” the document states. But, his efforts failed and the pregnancy was later discovered after the child began to complain\u00a0about stomach pains and was taken to the doctor. According to the document,\u00a0when medicine did not help the victim, her mother returned and that doctor scheduled an ultrasound at the hospital.\u00a0 On March 22, 2018, the ultrasound confirmed that the child was estimated to be approximately 23 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Authorities were immediately notified and an abortion was scheduled by the mother for March 27, 2018.<\/p>\n

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Late-term abortion doc Shelley Sella deposition in Eric Lacy rape case<\/p><\/div>\n

Enter late-term abortionist and SWO medical director Shelley Sella,\u00a0licensed to practice in\u00a0California, New Mexico, and Texas. SWO employees roughly fifteen staffers. Sella admitted in her deposition to committing “tens of thousands” of abortions. Sella was questioned by Carla Gibson, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney representing the State of Arkansas, and stated that the victim and her mother consented to the second trimester D&E abortion procedure. The baby was estimated to be 22 weeks 4 days, according to Sella’s ultrasound,\u00a0which differs slightly from the hospital ultrasound previously mentioned.<\/p>\n

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Shelley Sella deposition commits tens of thousands of abortions (Image: State of Arkansas vs Eric Jerome Lacey)<\/p><\/div>\n

“So, following the consents and, again, we spoke with her privately, and with her mother, then I began the procedure for her that involved an injection of Digoxin into the fetus to cause demise, and insertion of laminaria, which are dilators that are placed in the cervix, the bottom part of the uterus, to help it open overnight,” Sella stated. “Following those procedures, she was taken to the recovery room. And, after that, she left with her mother. I don’t know who else was with her, but she left to go back to her hotel where she was staying.”<\/p>\n

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Shelley Sella deposition of late term abortion in hotel SWO<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sella was then asked to describe the type of procedure the child would undergo, and replied, “For her, because the pregnancy was further advanced, it would involve preparing the cervix, and the next day, proceeding with extracting the pregnancy with instruments. That’s known as a D&E, dilation and evacuation.” This gruesome dismemberment procedure is described in the video below by former abortionist Anthony Levatino:<\/p>\n