Prendergaft associate Randall Whitney reportedly testified that babies are born alive all the time after failed abortions and are then left to die.
Posted on 07/26/2011 3:17:46 PM PDT by NYer
ORLANDO, Florida, July 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In disturbing testimony during court proceedings against a well-known Florida abortionist, a fellow abortionist reportedly admitted that some aborted children are delivered alive and left “wiggling around in the toilet,” where they are allowed to die.
The testimony occurred during proceedings against abortionist James Pendergraft, who was forced to pay over $36 million last week for a botched procedure that left its intended target alive, but severely disabled.
Pendergraft, who was convicted of felony extortion in 2001, was told by an Orlando County jury to pay $18 million in the civil suit itself and another $18 million in punitive damages, totaling over $36 million.
Michele Herzog of Pro-Life Action Ministries, a witness in the courtroom, said that jurors listened as abortionist Randall Whitney, one of Pendergrast’s accomplices, “cavalierly stated that yes, babies are delivered in the toilet all the time and many times are still alive, wiggling around in the toilet.”
“I would say it was eye-opening, but we all know what really goes on in these abortion mills. But to hear the abortionist so coldly explain how they kill the children is so hard to hear and so unbelievable to think that it is allowed in our great nation,” Herzog said.
The civil suit was launched by Pendergrast’s former patient, Carol Howard, whose infant barely survived a 2004 medical abortion at his facility. The girl, now ten years old, suffers from a host of disabilities in connection with the attempted killing, including cerebral palsy, loss of function on the left side of her body, strokes, mental disability, chronic lung disease, and seizures.
The jury last week awarded Pendergraft to pay Howard $18,255,000 in damages, as well as $462,000 in court costs, according to reports. The next day, the jury awarded Howard punitive damages of over $18 million, bringing the total to $36,766,000.
“[Pendergraft] has an abortion dynasty around the state of Florida. He only cares about money, and I say hit him where it hurts!” said Howard’s attorney during closing arguments to the jury, according to Herzog.
Although Pendergraft was still in jail for extortion in Marian County at the time, Howard said she was drawn to one of his five abortion clinics because the facility’s website touted his credentials as a board certified OB/GYN. When she got there, she was given RU-486 by a medical assistant to abort her pregnancy at over 22 weeks.
Herzog reports that, according to Howard’s attorney, Howard was given fifty times the standard dosage of Cyotec, a brand name for the labor-inducing drug misoprostol. When Howard began undergoing violent contractions and asked for pain medication, she was told by medical assistants to walk her labor off outside in the parking lot, or else leave, according to the pro-life group. Meanwhile, there were reportedly no doctors or nurses present.
Howard wound up going home, but called 911 and managed to give birth to her baby at a hospital.
Ping!
Evil bastards!
It would be nice if the Creator stepped in to do something about it.
Reminds me of passerbys who ignore someone being gangraped.
Why was the mother aborting her child at 22 weeks?
Gee, that’s disgusting.
Mankind is sick, possibly terminally.
bkmrk
that would include mom....going to have a lot of 'splainin to do over the years....yes dear, I chose the botched abortion that has caused you all this trauma.....sue the doctor indeed....examine your own conscience
God is not mocked.
Is the mother going to get this money???!!! She’s a piece of crap. Please don’t let her profit from what she willingly did to her child with the help of this monster.
The Creator gave us dominion over the earth.
He gave us His Son Who won the victory through His death and resurrection.
He told us to be salt and light to the world.
He's waiting for us to do something about it.
Now that’s a helluva note!
While I agree fully with the previous post of "Evil Bastards" - I am aggravated that there is no finger-pointing at the women who CHOOSE abortion in the first place - are they not just as guilty? We talk all the time about selfishness - but a woman going to the abortion clinic (aka- slaughterhouse) is nothing less that conspiracy to commit murder - and quite honestly - it is fully part of the murder.
People like to use "what ifs" to justify abortion - rape (while I understand the emotion involved - a baby conceived through rape didn't commit the crime - so why does he or she receive a death penalty for it? If a woman doesn't want such a child - then there is always adoption). Lest we forget - conceptions by rape are quite rare.
Or the other big excuse for abortion: The life/health of the woman. Last I checked, pregnancy/childbirth is classified as a risk to the woman's health under the best of conditions - Women die form time to time as a complete shock to doctors - healthy women and healthy unborn baby - but complications arise. This is the way it has always been. Again - the actual number of cases where a woman carrying a baby to term and/or giving birth is a direct cause for her death is quite low. Further - many women have been told by doctors that childbirth would kill them - only to go through a normal labor and delivery with no ill effects. Good thing those mothers didn't harken unto the voice of Satan!
The naked face of Liberalism.
Great Article. One question though - how is the Girl 10 years old now when the attempted abortion took place in 2004? Did they round up a few years or did I miss out on a few years somewhere?
So thankful we’re living in the US, away from savages like the Taliban and Hamas.
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So thankful we’re living in the US, away from savages like the Taliban and Hamas.
This is impossible to understand.
The baby's daddy "dissed" her.
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