{"id":302873,"date":"2023-12-07T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T23:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=302873"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:16:07","slug":"hundreds-babies-survived-abortions-underreported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hundreds-babies-survived-abortions-underreported\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of babies are documented to have survived abortions… and they’re vastly underreported"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Instances of babies who survived failed abortion attempts are likely occurring more often than what has been recently reported, as there are no federal abortion reporting requirements.<\/p>\n

Only a handful of states require cases of abortion survivors to be documented, and Live Action News found 220 cases of abortion survivors reported from 1999-2023 in just eight states. Because of a lack of consistent reporting, that number is almost certainly substantially higher.<\/p>\n

“Only eight states have publicly reported or responded to requests for statistics on children marked for abortion who were born alive during abortion procedures (Arizona<\/a>,\u00a0Arkansas<\/a>,\u00a0Florida<\/a>,\u00a0Indiana<\/a>,\u00a0Michigan<\/a>,\u00a0Minnesota<\/a>,\u00a0Oklahoma<\/a>, and\u00a0Texas<\/a>),” the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In these states alone, Live Action News has documented that between 2020 and 2023 (reported thus far), nearly 70 incidents of babies born alive after an abortion were reported in just four states (Arizona, Florida, Minnesota and Texas), while over 90 incidents were reported between 2015 and 2019 in five states (Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas). The remaining 60 cases (between 1999 and 2014), all came from the State of Michigan, which has published records available going back several years.<\/p>\n

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Ana Rosa Rodriguez one of many babies born alive after failed abortion attempt<\/p><\/div>\n

Arizona\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In\u00a02017<\/a>, according to a Department of Health Services (ADHS), Arizona began “requiring any physician performing an abortion and any additional physician in attendance to ensure that all available means and medical skills are used to promote, preserve, and maintain the life of a fetus or embryo delivered alive.” Additionally, the physician committing the abortion was “required to document and report… the measures performed to maintain the life of such fetus or embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since that time, 55 abortion reports<\/em> involving “fetus or embryo delivered alive” were submitted to ADHS “along with the physician\u2019s statement documenting the measures taken to preserve the life of the fetus or embryo” between 2017 and 2021 (the latest published report<\/a> as of today). The data showed that 10 infants were reported as born alive during abortions in 2017,<\/a> 12 in 2018,<\/a> 15 in 2019<\/a>, and 9 in both 2020<\/a> and 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video<\/a> below from a Center for Medical Progress (CMP) investigation, captures abortionist DeShawn Taylor, who commits abortions at Planned Parenthood in Arizona, complaining about a law requiring any fetus with signs of life after an abortion to be “transported.”<\/p>\n

She then suggests that if\/when this occurs, “you need to pay attention to who’s in the room, right? Because the thing is, the law states you’re not supposed to do any maneuvers after the fact to try to cause [fetal] demise. So it’s really tricky… It’s a mess.”<\/p>\n