Kristan covers Lie Number Two: Babies that survive abortions aren't being killed or left to die.
California Allows Infanticide
Kristan mentions the "pregnancy outcomes" in California law. Let's quote AB 2223.
SEC. 7. Section 123467 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
123467. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or penalty, or otherwise deprived of their rights under this article, based on their actions or omissions with respect to their pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death due to a pregnancy-related cause.
(b) A person who aids or assists a pregnant person in exercising their rights under this article shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or penalty, or otherwise be deprived of their rights, based solely on their actions to aid or assist a pregnant person in exercising their rights under this article with the pregnant person’s voluntary consent.
In plain English: Nobody is to be prosecuted or sued or deprived of a right to abortion based on anything they do or fail to do that results in the death of an infant up to 28 days old due to "a pregnancy-related cause." The abortion lobby will say that this only includes causes directly related to the pregnancy itself such as fetal abnormalities or maternal health issues, but we've learned by experience that abortion advocates will drive trucks through any loophole, and this one is large enough to fly a jumbo jet through.
What About Michigan?
I haven't been able to find specific text that allows infanticide in Michigan. I wish Students for Life provided links. Her explanation, however, makes sense. If the desired "pregnancy outcome" is avoiding a live birth, then follow-through ensuring that she doesn't end up with a live baby makes sense.
Does Federal Law Override State Law?
Abortion advocates assert that the Federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act bans post-abortion infanticide by either neglect or overt action. However, the law contains no actual punishment for killing an infant born alive during an abortion, and to my knowledge it has never been enforced. Lacking the will to enforce existing laws effectively nullifies any laws that would otherwise protect these babies. Let's look at some examples:
- William Waddill aborted and strangled a 32-week baby in 1977. He beat the rap because nobody had tested the baby to make sure she had brain function before Waddill strangled her, and thus hadn't caused the baby's death as defined by "total and irreversible cessation of brain function." This effectively set a precedent that there was no point in charging anybody for the death of an abortion survivor because the practitioner could just claim that the abortion procedure had caused "total and irreversible cessation of brain function" prior to the baby being expelled, and thus, movement and breathing to the contrary, the baby wasn't technically alive to be killed. This is a moot point, though, because under current California law, just the fact that the baby had been injured in-utero would render Waddill immune from prosecution -- and from being sued by the baby's parents.
- Clinic owner Belkis Gonzales put a live-born 22-week baby in a biohazard bag and threw her onto the roof to decompose in the sun. Due to decomposition before the baby's body was recovered, it could not be medically proved that the little girl had been born alive so charges against Gonzales were dropped.
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| William Waddill |
Kristan brings up the "Texas Gosnell." Douglas Karpen. Let's explore this sterling example of compassionate reproductive health care:- Playlist: Karpen's whistleblowers describe what he did to abortion survivors.
- Karpen lets teen die from 25.5-week abortion.
- A teenage girl asked Karpan to remove the laminaria when she'd changed her mind about the abortion; he refused and she ended up giving birth to a 1 lb. 6 oz. baby who died in the NICU.
- I believe another death Kristan is referring to was Glenda Davis. The lawsuit filed by her survivors is under Karpen on AbortionDocs.org. Karpen worked there but I don't know what role, if any, he played in Glenda's death.
What About Kermit Gosnell?
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| Kermit Gosnell |
While Gosnell was ultimately convicted in the murders of several born-alive infants, that only happened because a few people raised hell. According to the Grand Jury Report, Gosnell and his employees got away with murdering born-alive babies for as long as 31 years, beginning as early as 1979 continuing until his arrest in 2010. Why? Because Pennsylvania officials decided to turn a blind eye.
While Gosnell is not an example of it being legal to kill babies to survive abortions, he is an example of getting away with brazenly killing live babies because officials don't have a problem with it.
The abortion lobby tries to pretend that Gosnell was an outlier. He worked one day a week at a National Abortion Federation clinic in Delaware. The NAF clinic would collect the patients' money, "counsel" them, and hand them off to Gosnell for illegal third trimester abortions to be started in Delaware and finished in his Philadelphia House of Horrors. One of those abortions culminated in the murder of Baby Boy A.
I have an entire playlist about this brave and stalwart provider of vital reproductive healthcare services.
Watch Kristen's video here.
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