{"id":317448,"date":"2024-08-19T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=317448"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:48:23","slug":"phil-donahue-abortion-survivor-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/phil-donahue-abortion-survivor-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Donahue once looked into the face of an abortion survivor and was moved. So should we all be."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phil Donahue, a pioneer<\/a> television talk show host, has died<\/a> at the age of 88. He was married to actress Marlo Thomas for 44 years.\u00a0“At his peak, his nationally syndicated ‘The Phil Donahue Show’ \u2014 later renamed ‘Donahue’ \u2014 was a ratings hit and precursor to similar shows by hosts Montel Williams and Jerry Springer,” reported<\/a> NBC News.<\/p>\n

Donahue considered himself a Catholic, but was an ardent supporter of abortion. He sometimes invited guests to his show to discuss abortion; his pro-abortion bias and irritation with pro-life guests became a hallmark of these particular episodes. However, one of Donahue’s shows on the topic of abortion was particularly riveting, because he interviewed the mother of Ana Rosa Rodriguez, a little girl born without a right arm<\/a>; it had been\u00a0severed by a New York abortionist during an attempted late-term procedure.<\/p>\n

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Phil Donahue holds little Ana Rosa Rodriguez whose arm was severed in late abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

Ana Rosa\u2019s story\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Ana Rosa Rodriguez survived a horrific abortion attempt, something that apparently outraged even a hardcore abortion proponent like Donahue. And yet, to be outraged at the injustice of a child born this way because of abortion should have transferred to outrage at the unjust act of abortion itself<\/em>. Sadly, this was not (and is not) often the case.<\/p>\n

In 1993, New York abortionist Dr. Abu Hayat \u2014 nicknamed the \u201cButcher of Avenue A\u201d \u2014 severed the arm of little Ana Rosa while attempting an abortion in the third trimester of pregnancy, Live Action News previously<\/a> documented.<\/p>\n

According to the Daily News<\/a>, Ana Rosa’s mother, Rosa 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

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News report of Ana Rosa Rodriguez born alive after failed abortion<\/p><\/div>\n

After the incident<\/a>, Phil Donahue had the infant and her mother as guests on his talk show, where he described the horror of the incident. Though Hayat practiced legally, Donahue attempted to spin the story as unrelated to the abortion issue.<\/p>\n

Yet every day, infants just as valuable as Ana Rosa are ripped apart limb by limb during abortions \u2013 but the majority are not born alive.<\/p>\n