{"id":94776,"date":"2016-05-23T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=94776"},"modified":"2016-05-27T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T15:42:38","slug":"911-tapes-21-week-old-baby-who-survived-an-abortion-was-breathing-and-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/911-tapes-21-week-old-baby-who-survived-an-abortion-was-breathing-and-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"911 tapes: 21-week-old baby who survived an abortion was ‘breathing’ and ‘moving’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newly released 911 tapes have confirmed that a\u00a0baby was born alive at an abortion facility\u00a0in Phoenix, Arizona. An abortion worker called 911, and the baby was rushed to the hospital, but he or she did not survive.<\/p>\n

Pro-lifers had heard rumors of an incident that occurred last February of a baby surviving an abortion at Family Planning Associates in Phoenix, Arizona, one in a chain of abortion facilities\u00a0originally founded by abortionist Dr. Edward Allred. The 911 tapes have now been released, confirming that a child was in fact born alive.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

This particular facility does a high volume of abortions and employs four different abortionists<\/a>. \u00a0There is no indication which abortionists were present when the baby was born. The baby\u2019s mother, whose identity has not been released, was 27 years old.\u00a0 The age of the baby was recorded as 21 weeks.<\/p>\n

On the 911 call, a staffer\u00a0can be hard saying tentatively:<\/p>\n

There was a termination that was performed\u2026There is a fetus that is breathing right now, so we need someone to do services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The dispatcher asked if the \u201cfetus\u201d had been\u00a0harmed in any way. The answer the facility\u00a0worker gave was no, but one could consider being forced into birth too soon as\u00a0being\u00a0harm.<\/p>\n

The mother had gone into spontaneous labor during or just before the abortion started. After the baby was born, the abortionist\u00a0checked for a heartbeat and found none. But as they put the baby on a scale to weigh him\/her, a clinic worker saw the baby\u00a0move. The worker\u2019s words were, \u201cOh my God, this fetus is moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The staffer,\u00a0who called 911, told the dispatcher that they could not care for the “fetus\u201d in the facility. In calling 911, the abortion center\u00a0was operating within the law.<\/p>\n

Such was not the case in 2005, \u00a0when a 22-week-old baby was born alive<\/a> at a different abortion facility. That baby, whom the mother named Rowan, was not given medical care. Workers refused to help him, and when paramedics arrived, they were turned away at the door. The baby died in a toilet while his mother pleaded with the facility\u00a0workers for help.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, a Live Action investigator had gone undercover to this same facility\u00a0several years ago. The investigator, who was 23 weeks pregnant at the time and posed as a woman seeking an abortion, asked a staffer\u00a0what the abortionist\u00a0would do if the baby were to be born alive.<\/p>\n

In the video, you can see and \u00a0hear the counselor\u00a0conceding: \u201cIt\u2019s possible that there may be movement as they\u2019re taking out the fetus.\u201d She then assures the investigator \u201cusually it stops on its own.\u201d She also assured the investigator that the clinic would not try to resuscitate the baby.<\/p>\n