Wichita, ks (lifenews.Com) -- a late-term
abortionist in kansas is being accused of
violating the federal born alive infants
protection act.
A document obtained by world magazine
indicates that some babies at george
tiller's wichita abortion facility are
dying after abortions instead of during
them.
The document, entitled, "your stay at
women's healthcare services: step-by-step
what to expect, intrauterine induction
abortion," states that "live birth of the
fetus" is among the possible
complications. It states that
responsibility for the medical care and
transport of a live-born infant rests on
the mother.
But the born alive infants protection act
of 2000 requires that medical workers
offer life-saving aid when a baby survives
an abortion.
Joann armentrout, an administrator with
the wichita facility, claims the abortion
center is not violating the law.
Armentrout was quoted in world magazine
saying, "we've never had a live birth
here."
however, armentrout failed to mention the
case of sarah brown, a girl with severe
disabilities who was adopted and lived for
five years after surviving an abortion at
the wichita facility in july of 1993.
Armentrout's statement also contradicts
statements made by abortionist leroy
carhart last year. Carhart told the
associated press that during
dilation-and-evacuation abortions, "the
fetuses are alive at the time of delivery"
at least once a month.
The wichita abortion center is not the
only one suspected of violating the born
alive infants protection act.
A 34-year-old woman said her child, known
as baby rowan, curled up as if he were
cold and grabbed her finger with his hand
after she delivered him in a toilet at an
abortion center in orlando. Shortly
after, the baby died.
In deposition testimony, abortionist
randall b. Whitney has said that
born-alive abortions do take place at the
florida facility and staff members make no
effort to resuscitate the babies.
In the spring of 2004, a suit was filed
against whitney, a second abortionist, and
the orlando women's center, an abortion
facility.
The suit alleged that a woman, known as
"c.H." in court records, agreed to have a
second-trimester abortion at the facility
in 2001.
The staff said c.H. Had a bad attitude
and ordered her to leave the facility.
She later gave birth at the orlando
regional medical center to a girl with
cerebral palsy and other disabilities.
Her attorney argues that, had c.H. Been
permitted to stay at the abortion center,
the baby would have been born alive there.
Meanwhile, a former abortion center
employee told world she was trained to
have patients abort into a toilet "so that
if the baby happens to be alive, that it
drowns."
in the wake of such allegations, the bush
administration is planning to check
nationwide compliance with the born alive
infants protection act;
as national right to life's legislative
director, douglas johnson, told
lifenews.Com earlier this year, such
action is badly needed "because there are
those in our society who have convinced
themselves that some newborn
infants-particularly those born alive
during abortions, or with handicaps-are
not really legal persons."
a representative of the nation's catholic
bishops, cathy cleaver ruse, agreed.
"roe v. Wade may currently leave our
country helpless to defend infants moments
before birth, but even now we can and must
protect those struggling for their lives
outside the womb."
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