Midwife: Babies at 16-17 weeks survived abortions and were left to die

In June 2015, The European Center for Law and Justice released a document entitled “Late Term Abortion & Neonatal Infanticide in Europe: Petition for the Rights of Newborns Surviving Their Abortion,” which can be found in its entirety here.

The document featured the testimonies of midwives, medical students, and doctors who witnessed babies born alive after abortions gone wrong. These babies were either neglected and allowed to die without medical treatment or killed by the direct actions of medical staff.

Midwife Mrs. Siv Bertilsson relates what she witnessed:

She says that the number of babies born alive after abortions at the hospital was shockingly high – one fourth of all children aborted at 16 – 17 weeks.  Horrified by the practice she was forced to witness, Bertilsson struggles with leaving her chosen field:

There are indeed laws about killing animals humanely. The report “Late Term Abortion & Neonatal Infanticide in Europe” states:

Instructions for dealing with lab animals are laid out in the Council Common Position (EC) 2010/63 of 22 Sept. 2010, Art. 4, 6, 2010 O.J. (L 276) 33-79 which you can read here states:

So we see that in Europe, fetal animals are protected from cruelty but fetal humans are not. This is deeply ironic, but with the culture of abortion on demand, it is not surprising. Even in America, methods of aborting babies such as D & E (dismemberment) would be considered barbaric if used on animals. Cats and dogs in shelters must be killed humanely under the law, but preborn babies, even in the later stages of pregnancy, can be killed by dismemberment and mutilation.

Babies are not just born alive in Europe. It also happens in the United States. In the following video, a Planned Parenthood representative refuses to condemn withholding treatment from these babies:

Planned Parenthood endorses post-birth abortion

As Live Action previously reported, Students for Life secretly recorded a Planned Parenthood clinic nurse saying that babies born alive at her clinic are allowed to die:

Live Action’s own undercover investigations have recorded abortionists and clinic staff admitting that babies born alive at their clinics are not resuscitated. One clinic worker even said that babies born alive at her clinic were drowned in a solution. Whether in Europe or the United States, babies born alive after abortion are seldom allowed to survive.