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Nurse horrified as doctor orders abortion survivor to be taken to lab: ‘It won’t be breathing long’
Live Action News ^ | May 26 2020 | Sarah Terzo

Posted on 05/27/2020 2:02:13 PM PDT by Morgana

Shortly after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion throughout the United States, a nurse watched helplessly as a baby born alive during a botched abortion struggled to live. In an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer1, a nurse named Linda told her story. She withheld her last name, perhaps fearing retaliation from the hospital where she worked.

In one ward of the hospital, abortionists committed saline abortions. In a saline abortion procedure, caustic saline solution was injected into the mother’s womb. The saline solution burned the baby’s skin and poisoned him or her. Labor would begin, usually within 12 hours, and the baby would be expelled. It could take several hours for the baby to die, and sometimes the baby didn’t die at all and was born alive. Saline abortions were often done in hospitals on an inpatient basis.

The saline method is almost never used today. It resulted in too many live births and was extremely dangerous to the woman. According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, saline abortion once had the highest fatality rate for the woman of any elective surgical procedure, second only to cardiac transplantation.2

READ: Do saline abortions, where babies are burned in salt, still happen in the U.S.?

Linda had the job of collecting the aborted babies and disposing of them. One day, instead of the dead baby she expected to remove from the woman’s bed, she found a living 1 ½ pound child. She says:

It looked right at me. This baby had real big eyes. It looked at you like it was saying, “Do something – do something.” Those haunting eyes. Oh God, I still remember them.

She checked the child’s vital signs. The baby’s heartbeat was holding steady and the child was breathing regularly, but slowly, at 3 to 4 breaths a minute. Linda called the doctor:

I called him because the baby was breathing. It was pink. It had a heartbeat. The doctor told me the baby was nonviable and to send it to the lab. I said, “But it’s breathing,” and he said, “It’s nonviable, it won’t be breathing long – send it to the lab.”

The abortionist wanted Linda to send the child to the pathology lab, where all the dead babies were taken. Instead, Linda took the child to the nurse’s station and put the baby in a makeshift crib with a hot water bottle for warmth. She had no oxygen mask that would fit the child, so she put an open tube of oxygen next to the child’s head.

Ironically, there was a nursery, with equipment to assist prematurely born children, right in the hospital. But the head nurse refused to let Linda take the child there. From the article:

The nursing supervisor, Linda said, had refused to let her put the baby in the nursery, where there was equipment to assist premature babies in distress. “She said to follow the doctor’s orders and take it to the lab. I kept it with me at the station. We couldn’t do an awful lot for it.”

The child clung to life for two hours. Linda did not have resources to care for the baby. These resources were in the very same building, but Linda could not take the baby to the nursery.

Linda was haunted by the child’s death, even eight years later. She says, “I stood by and watched that baby die without doing a thing. I have guilt feelings to this day. I feel the baby might have lived had it been properly cared for.”

READ: Medical professionals recount stories of babies born alive during abortions

Nurses assisting in abortions at the hospital were taught to think of the babies as “tissue.” They were trained to disregard the babies’ humanity. Even though the children who were aborted were fully formed and were in the second or even third trimesters, the children were dehumanized. But it was obvious that this baby was human.

Why didn’t Linda defy the nurse’s and doctor’s orders and take the baby to the nursery anyway? Another nurse explains:

Our training disciplines you to follow the doctor’s orders. If you do something on your own for the baby that the doctor has not ordered and that may not meet with his commitment to his patient, the mother can sue you. A nurse runs a great risk if she acts on her own. Not only her immediate job but her license may be threatened.

Sadly, Linda didn’t have the courage to defy the doctor. It’s possible the nursery would’ve turned away the baby anyway, and the child became another heartbreaking casualty of abortion.

1 Liz Jeffries and Rick Edmonds, “Abortion: The Dreaded Complication” The Philadelphia Inquirer August 2, 1981

2 Norman R Kaplan, MD “Hazard of Saline Abortion: Letter” Journal of the American Medical Association July 3, 1972, cited in Mark Crutcher Lime 5: Exploited by Choice (Denton, Texas: Life Dynamics, Inc., 1996)


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1 posted on 05/27/2020 2:02:13 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Boggles the mind that this is acceptable to half the population.


2 posted on 05/27/2020 2:06:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Morgana
‘It won’t be breathing long’

I'm hearing a German accent. Anyone else hearing a German accent?

3 posted on 05/27/2020 2:07:12 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Morgana

‘It won’t be breathing long’

“It”........IT???????????????

What kind of azzhole calls a baby “it”??????


4 posted on 05/27/2020 2:12:10 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Morgana

Horrific.


5 posted on 05/27/2020 2:12:19 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nope. Chicago suburban. HRC


6 posted on 05/27/2020 2:12:27 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Morgana

If you’re horrified at killing babies maybe you shouldn’t be working at an abortion mill. Just sayin’


7 posted on 05/27/2020 2:17:46 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Gene Eric

Yes, so many in the USA are heartless and incorrigible.


8 posted on 05/27/2020 2:20:58 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Morgana

Breathing? Better check with Mayor Pete Boot-edge-edge since even HE might call that infanticide!


9 posted on 05/27/2020 2:21:07 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Morgana

My mother ,working as a nurse’s aide , saved a baby born apparently not breathing. The baby’s mother had a number of children and the doctor felt she didn’t need a another.
My mother was reassigned away from the maternity ward afterwards.The doctor was furious someone dared disobey HIS orders.Doctors have entirely too much ego in general.
That was in the 70s ; the baby (girl)survived , grew up, married and had children of her own. And happened to meet my mother and knew who had saved her and thanked my mother.


10 posted on 05/27/2020 2:25:24 PM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: Gene Eric

More than half.


11 posted on 05/27/2020 2:25:37 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Morgana

Funny the doctor didn’t say “he” or “she” won’t be breathing long. When does an “it” become a human?


12 posted on 05/27/2020 2:26:51 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: JBW1949

Of course, if someone got the doctor and forcibly hauled him away, “It won’t be breathing long.”, Could also apply.


13 posted on 05/27/2020 2:33:07 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: Gene Eric

Why not call police, that sounds like murder to me.


14 posted on 05/27/2020 2:44:05 PM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Morgana

How anyone with a conscience and a heart can work in that “industry” is beyond any comprehension.


15 posted on 05/27/2020 2:48:53 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: Morgana
This seems like a clear cut violation of the 14th Amendment and the doctor should be charged with murder. All persons born in the United States are protected. Since the baby was born, it was murdered. If the state government allow it to continue, I would think that they would be an accessory to murder.

Amendment XIV Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

16 posted on 05/27/2020 3:01:16 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Morgana

Dr. Mengele, call your office.


17 posted on 05/27/2020 3:05:05 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: JBW1949

The kind that sees it as something to be disposed of and nothing more. Sinisterly evil isn’t it.


18 posted on 05/27/2020 3:15:02 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

Makes you wonder how someone like that made it through medical school.....


19 posted on 05/27/2020 3:25:47 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Gene Eric

A lot of things are acceptable if they’re out of sight and out of mind. That’s why abortion advocates go nuts if you show them pictures of what it really looks like.


20 posted on 05/27/2020 3:50:10 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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