Babies left in toilets: Not as uncommon as you think

“I’ve done this for 36 years. I thought I had seen everything. I have no words to describe how I’m feeling about this.” 

~ Police spokesman Rudy Lopez, West Covina, California

The delivery of a full-term newborn baby, left to die in a toilet at a California Subway restaurant, has left citizens stunned – including a member of the police force with nearly four decades of experience. The baby boy, who was still alive and crying, was born to a local woman with a history of drug abuse. As California has a “Safe Surrender” law which allows mothers to relinquish their babies to fire stations or hospitals, “no questions asked, within the first 72 hours of birth, so long as the child shows no signs of abuse,” this mother clearly had several choices. She chose to leave her child for dead and has now been arrested for abandonment.

Many other women have also chosen to leave their babies for dead in toilets. And while this is understandably horrifying for the witnesses, what people like Officer Lopez and the West Covina community may not understand is that it isn’t as uncommon as it should be for babies to be left for dead in toilets. In fact, this is standard practice for some late-term abortionists.

Operation Rescue states that “the toilet delivery method is used by a number of abortionists, including Florida abortionist James Pendergraft.” OR describes the late-term abortion procedure this way:

Indeed, it was abortionist Pendergraft’s EPOC abortion facility in Florida that was the site of a call placed by a frantic mother after her nearly 23-week baby boy was delivered into a toilet in 2005. Baby Rowan lived for 11 minutes – and the abortion facility staff kept his mother inside the bathroom while they turned away the ambulance that the woman’s friend had called for help.

In Live Action’s InHuman investigation at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an investigator posing as a late-term abortion patient was instructed to “sit on the toilet” if she should go into labor before returning to the abortion facility to complete her abortion. It is obvious from the conversation that sending abortion patients to hotels to labor during the process is common procedure, and that a contingency plan is in place in the event of an early delivery:

Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry - New Mexico

Also in the InHuman investigation, a Bronx, New York, abortion facility worker was caught on tape instructing a 23-week, late-term abortion patient that if she went into labor at home before the two-day procedure was completed, she should “flush it”:

Inhuman: Undercover in America's Late-Term Abortion Industry - NEW YORK

And we can’t leave out convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who did the same thing at his “house of horrors” abortion facility in Philadelphia. Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic wrote:

But Friedersdorf is sadly mistaken when he later states, “Any single one of those things would itself make for a blockbuster news story.”

Well, it would – if the media actually reported it. Widely exposing the fact that women often abort nearly full-term babies into toilets would not be pretty for the abortion industry. The mainstream media reluctantly reported on the Gosnell case – claiming he was an “outlier” – but tend to ignore or downplay atrocities at other abortion centers on a regular basis.

In the case of the Subway baby, paramedics instructed employees to “get the baby out of the toilet” to save his life because they recognized he was human – not human waste.

We unfortunately can’t expect those who perform abortions for a living to do the same.