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.
More legal UNSAFE, BOTCHED abortions. So much for the feminazis’ Big Lie about the breakthroughs from Roe v. Wade.
Amen! Right on target.
I can't speak for all of the women, but certainly a lot of them simply don't understand the gravity of what's going on. They are told there's nothing wrong with abortion, that it's only a clump of cells, etc. It's possible to be ignorant and pregnant at the same time. The doctors, on the other hand, know EXACTLY what they are doing. Both the women and the doctors are doing terrible evil, but the doctors are doing the equivalent of 1st degree murder.
“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?”
Western civ has determined that women should able to run wild and not be held accountable for their actions. Only the men should be held accountable for their actions because everything is the man’s fault.
I think the latest statistic I have read in regards to the number of children who have been aborted in America is around 51 million but I may be mistaken.
Worldwide it is around a billion.
And those aborted children are sold to be used in women’s cosmetics, in vaccines, and other products. Murdered babies are big business.
Dear Jim, beyond that.
You know that pain you get in your middle, almost a shortness of breath that causes you to hunch over when you get bad news or a tremendous scare about a loved one?
That's what I feel when I think of a child, a human baby, 'wiggling around in the toilet'.
My God, what's wrong with these so-called people? They cannot have an ounce of human compassion in them, I can't even imagine doing that to vermin.
[ Why was the mother aborting her child at 22 weeks? ]
Sometimes I feel that if they want a late term abortion the doctor should have to deliver it alive and then the om be legally bound top snuff the life of her own child by her own hands because it is too anti8-septic for the doctor to do the killing and the one requesting the killing is just “undergoing a procedure”. If the pregnant woman had to wring the life out of her own child with her own hands and have to feel the visceral shame in snuffing out another life maybe we would see a lot fewer abortions, especially later term ones.
Instead she is effectively isolated fromt he violence of a violent act.
I know this may sound very mean and some people are going to be offended by it, but taking the easy way out is part of the abortion experience today.
As it stands the Doctor is a contract killer who the mother pays to perform a hit on her unborn “mass of tissue” (sick). If they want abortion legal then why not infanticide with the condition that the mother does it herself? Because isn’t abortion just a fancy name for a sterilized act of infanticide?
Sorry if I offend anyone, but tough cookies, this is how I feel.
Believe it or not, this is the face of a perfectly ordinary bureaucratic soul-less drone, filling in death paper work or what not, and, mark my words, a box of rocks would have more heart. It’s like the inherent notes entering our ears without wanting it, it marches in, without soul, in percutions about without asking, like a hammer falling “accidentaly” to crush a baby’s head in grotesque fashion.
Exactly. Were I on the jury she wouldn’t have gotten a dime. Let this guy suffer In the criminal courts. Not exactly a mother’s day card mommy, eh?
I’m a father of 3, and me too, God bless you and your family, and praying for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby!
“These people have the morals of the Norway mass murderer.”
At least most of his victims could have tried to defend themselves. If they had wanted to.
This is far worse.
I’m sure we’ll read an article about “left-wing extremists” in the Times tomorrow.
NYer: “God does not intervene because He gave us the gift of “free will”. It’s just that simple. Were He to intervene each time an evil act is committed, then there would be no need for paradise. It would be here.”
Well written, and I believe you’re correct according to scripture. The existence of evil in this world is often used as an argument against the existence of God. Why would a loving God permit abortionists to murder innocent children?
Humans aren’t animals. We know the difference between good and evil and can choose to do good. Like you wrote, we have free will. God wants people to be like Christ. Christ faced the same difficulties and temptations as us, but Christ chose to love and obey God. We can do the same.
Abortion exists because most people prefer evil over good. It’s as simple as that.
Would it be incorrect to say that something this horrible should be stopped through civil disobedience?
“What are you doing out there, Waldo?”
I’m a father of 3, and me too, God bless you and your family, and praying for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby!
bkmk
The headline is horrible by itself...and there we were(dh and I) afraid to adopt a child because we feared it being grabbed from us by birth parents.
The world is TOTALLY off balance.
“What a gruesome, evil industry. More barbaric than anything from the middle ages. Goes on under our noses all the time, sanctioned by a major political party, dressed up as freedom and choice, pushed as acceptable birth control by the elites! What a black, bleak, dark, ominous cloud this must be bringing to our nation.”
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In many ways, this is age is by far worse than the atrocities of the Nazi’s in WWII. The Nazi’s accurately documented in what they were doing. They were definitely more honest in their motives and goals.
Today, the left tries to cloak its actions in euphemism like “pro-choice”, “birth control”, or “reproductive rights”. The lazy media and a public that just wants to forget the abortion are willing accomplices in this modern day genocide. This genocide is by far the worst in world history because it is scantioned by governments and their “good intentions”. Babies gasping to breath, slowly wiggling to death in a toilet, is the reality of these “good intentions.”
And soon, said ordinary bureaucratic soul-less drone will have control over all of our “health”.
Government, the foulest creation of man...
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