Abortionist forcibly kills child while mother cries, ‘I want to save my baby’

In her book The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories, Abby Johnson compiles the stories of former abortion center workers who have left the abortion industry. Among the compelling and disturbing stories in the book is that of one facility worker who witnessed a third trimester induction abortion and its aftermath.

Third trimester abortions are generally performed by the induction method. In this method of abortion, the doctor first inserts laminaria sticks into the woman’s body. These absorb fluid and expand, slowly opening the cervix and preparing the woman for her abortion. The doctor then injects a substance into the baby or amniotic sac which causes cardiac arrest in the nearly full-term child. This is done on two consecutive days. The third day, labor is induced and the mother essentially “gives birth” to a dead baby. Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who has performed thousands of abortions, describes how this procedure works in the video below:

3rd Trimester Induction Abortion: Injection and Stillbirth

Third trimester abortions, which are done after the point when the baby can live independently outside the mother, are more common than people think. There are as many as 13,000 late term abortions every year.

Despite what many pro-choicers claim, these abortions are often done on healthy mothers carrying healthy babies. In other cases they are done on children who are disabled, such as those who have Down syndrome.

In Johnson’s story, an abortion center worker describes being sent from her own center to visit a late-term abortion facility that was very efficient and successful at making money. She was sent to observe the way the facility was run and report back to her employer.

Shortly after the visiting worker arrived at the facility, a woman named Jessica arrived to have an abortion at 28 weeks. Babies delivered at that age routinely survive.

The reason for the abortion was that Jessica’s boyfriend had broken up with her, and in her pain and despair over the breakup, she didn’t think she could handle having a baby without his support. The abortion worker says she wondered if such a reason was valid – Jessica was making a decision in the grip of powerful emotions. Would she regret her choice later?

The baby and mother were perfectly healthy.

Jessica seemed upset when she arrived at the clinic. The doctor injected her baby with digoxin (a heart drug which, when used for abortion, causes cardiac arrest in the preborn child), then sent her to a hotel. This late-term abortion facility regularly sent their patients to a local hotel after injecting digoxin. The patients would stay for two nights, then come back to the abortion center the next day to be induced.

As the woman was packed off, the visiting worker saw them hand a bag to her as she went out the door. She asked one of the workers what the bag was for. The woman replied:

The next day, Jessica returned to the facility to have the old laminaria removed and the new laminaria put in. They did an ultrasound, and discovered that the baby was still alive. They figured that the digoxin would just take a little longer to work, and they sent her back to the hotel.

The abortionist showed little sympathy towards Jessica:

Jessica did not return to the facility on time. The workers called her multiple times, but she did not answer. Finally they called the manager of the hotel and demanded they put Jessica on the line. Jessica told the clinic that she had changed her mind about the abortion.

The doctor and clinic workers drove to the hotel to force Jessica to come in.  They brought her into the clinic through the rear door, “heaving her toward the procedure room.” She arrived heavily drugged by the doctor.

Jessica still insisted she wanted her baby. The doctor sedated her again as she struggled to get away:

The dead baby was delivered with the facility workers pushing on Jessica’s abdomen, as she was unconscious and unable to push.

The worker said:

She couldn’t help but wonder:

When Jessica woke up, she was overcome with emotion:

The abortionist called the police on the poor woman to shut her up and force her from the facility. The police forced her to leave.

The worker said:

The horrible scene in the facility shows that many abortion providers don’t care about their patients or about doing the right thing by them. The doctor and his abortion workers terrorized a woman and murdered her baby against her will, drugging her and dragging her into the facility. When they were done with her, they treated her like a criminal and called the police. One can only imagine the horrible emotional trauma Jessica had to undergo, and the emotional scars that she now carries.

Source: Abby Johnson The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2016) 60-67

For more compelling stories from former clinic workers, buy The Walls are Talking here.