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.
This woman premeditatedly wanted her living child dead, entered into a conspiracy to kill the child with this abortionist, paid him money to kill the child, and allowed him to attempt to murder the child.
Not sure where the badge of MOTHER fits in here.
Good Post! His own words show who he is. When a man has no regard for his children, what is left in his ethical resume? Who voted for him and where do they stand now?
That man is so evil.
Free will is not a "gift". It is a curse.
I think I’m going to be sick.
I have to admit, that there are just some people I don’t care if God ever forgives.
Murder, murder, murder. Plain and simple. Don’t want the baby? Get rid of it. MURDER, MURDER, MURDER. If what is stated is true...I hope those people burn in hell and then burn again and again. People want to adopt. There is no reason to do what they do to these babies. My heart breaks, my tears flow and my stomach sickens at the animals that do this. May they meet their justice full on when they meet their maker. Let’s see how much THEY wiggle around the flames of HELL~
that’s because you sir have a heart and a soul. Your baby will come into this world loved from the very second he/she emerges. Thank God for you and all the mothers and fathers who love their unborn babies. I pray for the babies who have no one who cares about them... isn’t it sad? Doesn’t it just break your heart to think of someone so little, brand new and innocent to everything is treated so God awful?
We wish you much love and happiness to you and your wife with your precious little Gift from God. Love that baby, care for it and when he/she is old enough to pray...maybe you can all pray together for the babies that never had a chance at life. Oh how they must have suffered as well. So, pray together. Maybe prayers from little ones will make more of an impact. God save this country. God save the babies. :(
Why is this guy not charged with murder?
He's not just waiting for us either. He is there to help each and every person involved in the abortion to come to the realization of their act and to turn to Him for forgiveness. The miracles God does every day - some of which most of us are never aware - is that He has a plan and a purpose for every person THROUGH every choice they make.
I volunteered at a Woman's Place Ministries and I can attest to the overwhelming mercy and love of God who can change every heart. There have been many abortion doctors that have turned their lives over to God, accepted his forgiveness and remain strong advocates against the terrible sin of abortion. Dr. Bernard Nathanson comes to mind. He is now with the Lord but at the start of the abortion rights wars he was on the side of evil. God changed his heart and he became a stalwart in the war for the unborn. Many millions of women who had abortions now fight for the rights of the unborn because God touched their hearts with the truth. Never underestimate the power of God to exactly DO something.
A remarkable woman's story and her ministry to women is found HERE
The barbarism of abortion demonstrates the primacy of animal consciousness. In abortion there is no morality, no goodness, no love, no human reason. It is an act of pure bloodlust, the eating of one’s own child, killed, not born, sold for parts or flushed as excrement. How vile, how evil, how foul we have become.
Excellent points! My thought exactly on how the woman herself is somehow the victim?
"...[I]f that fetus, or child - however way you want to describe it - is now outside the mother's womb and the doctor continues to think that it's nonviable but there's, let's say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they're not just coming out limp and dead, [like wiggling in a toilet???!!!! My emphasis] that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved."This ghoulish statement is located on page 32 of the transcript, which can be read here: State of Illinois/92nd General Assembly/Regular Session/Senate Transcript/April 4, 2002 On the basis of the scenario he describes, Obama goes on to argue that calling in another physician would in effect "burden the original decision" of the mother and doctor, and that therefore, the bill should not be passed. Words fail me.....
Further documentation can be found at Jill Stanek's website. The link has not only a later excerpt from the debate on the Illinois Senate floor, but audio as well.
There is a great campaign commercial to be made here; who will avail him or herself of the opportunity?
“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.”
Well said.
Such could never happen (identifying mark for each abortion the woman has) - why? Think about it - the Roe decision that made abortion legal was based on what? Right to Privacy.
Now I have a question - what the heck does privacy have to do with having your baby murdered? The “logic” played out means that we should be able to murder anyone we want in the “privacy” of our own home - OF course that isn’t how it works... yet the court used similar logic in its Roe decision.
The whole casual, disassociated mentality and state of mind of these people is disturbing.
Spent a good bit of time in University Hospital neonatal ICU working my way through college and we worked hard to keep very early premies which were at a developmental stage at which other babies of similar age were being aborted. As a result, I really object to the term “fetus” Ironically, premies actually look more like little people than look like babies. The also have very distinct personalities
It takes a special kind of person to do abortions.
But God could simply plant a recurring thought into the abortionist’s mind whenever he wakes up in the morning, a thought that his job consists of murdering innocent babies, a thought that he can never cleanse himself of the evil he perpetrates.
That doesn’t interfere with free will. It simply ensures that the abortionist has full knowledge - daily - of what he is doing.
Besides, the free will argument is nothing more than a crutch because people claim every day all around the world that God intervened to help them out or that God spoke to them or that God performed a miracle to help out in some way. Yet the most innocent of all get relegated to squirming in a toilet and God shrugs His shoulders and says “Meh, it’s free will.”??? That ain’t right. Not by a long shot.
These are not doctors, they are pimps.
Now you can’t even go and use the toilet without being nauseated by these inhumane freaks of the Left.
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