By Dave Andrusko
To its great credit the pro-life organization Live Action has produced shocking uncover videos documenting that the abortion industry is every bit as sleazy and cavalier about human life as pro-lifers insist.
In just a few days the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will vote on the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance,” which would ban abortions after 20 weeks, the juncture by which science shows the unborn child can experience pain. There are only four abortion clinics which openly admit they perform late, late abortions. Two of them are in Albuquerque.
“It is imperative that pro-lifers in Albuquerque cast a vote next Tuesday to ban these horrific abortions,” said NRLC President Carol Tobias. “But all people of good will should be able to agree that no baby capable of experiencing pain should be aborted.”
Thursday, Live Action released a new investigating recording, “Profits from Pain”—which includes excerpts from a November 8, 2013, recorded phone conversation with a receptionist at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque.
[Earlier this year NRL News Today carried an account at what abortionist Carmen Landau and a counselor employed at the same facility said to an investigator from Life Action (see “Caught on video: abortionist tells woman 24-week-old fetus ‘doesn’t even look like a baby yet’” ).]
What the receptionist is shown saying on the videod is remarkable on many levels. Right out of the box she tells an investigator from Live Action that this will be a “week-long procedure”[!] and that an abortion at 25 weeks would cost $8,000!
Trying to defuse the situation, she asks, “Are you still in your chair?” Perhaps sensing hesitation or just knowing from past experience how women respond, the receptionist warns that “what you have to keep in mind is that every week that goes by, the fee goes up by another thousand dollars.”
Subtle.
Thursday’s release also includes undercover video from an in-person visit to the same abortion clinic made last January by an investigator who said she was 27 weeks pregnant.
See if you find what both the counselor and the abortionist, Carmen Landau, said as creepy as I did.
The conversation with the counselor includes the investigator asking questions about whether a baby could possibly survive at this point. “It would have difficulty and would need assistance,” she reluctantly concedes. Since the lungs are the last thing to develop, the baby would probably have difficulty breathing and “would need an incubator” and “would spend some time in the hospital before you take it home.”
The video then switches to a discussion that begins with the abortionist, then shifts to the counselor. The video shows Landau explaining that the injection “stops the heartbeat of the fetus.”
Landau asks if the investigator has felt movement. Landau explains that after the injection “Most people, within a few hours, notice that there’s no movement.”
The counselor then explains exactly how the baby will die.
The injection “is going straight into the sac, into (she pauses) the pregnancy.” If the baby is “bottom down, it’ll insert through the baby’s bottom.” If the baby is “head-down,” the needle “will be inserted through the head–the cranium.”
The investigator asks “does it feel that?” and you can hear the counselor squirm. “You know, I’m not sure…I don’t believe so. I don’t know if it’s developed enough to feel that.” A second later, a remarkable aside: “It might be.”
The counselor tries to regain control of the conversation. ”Does that idea bother you?” she asks.
“A little bit, I guess. What about you?“
“I feel that it’s necessary for the procedure to happen and ultimately the safest and kind of the most, kind of humane way to do it, you know, because we cannot deliver a live baby [nervous laughter].”
In the last minute there is a brief exchange with Carmen Landau, the abortionist. Landau tells the investigator that she has performed “lots” of abortions on women as far along as the investigator says she is “because in most places you can’t get an abortion after 24 weeks.”
New Mexico “has laws,” Landau says. She pauses: “It doesn’t have a lot of the restrictions.”
Don’t miss the opportunity to watch the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEi5xWA6e08
Next Tuesday the city of Albuquerque will decide whether it will add a “restriction”—you can’t abort babies capable of feeling pain which an abundance of scientific evidence demonstrates begins no later than the 20th week.