The Battle and Late Term Abortion

 

Albuquerque hotel offers discounts to women undergoing late abortions

By Dave Andrusko
  Earlier today, we posted a story based on an undercover investigation of Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by the pro-life organization Live Action. (“Live Action Releases additional video footage from Albuquerque abortion clinic, city to vote on ‘Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance,’ November 19,” http://nrlc.cc/HXzG5m.) It is required reading four days before the vote.

However Live Action released a second investigative video this morning, which includes (as did the first) video along with telephone calls of conversations with a receptionist, a counselor, and an abortionist. However this second video also included (believe it or not) a woman who answers the phone at a local Albuquerque hotel.

How did she get involved?

On the video the receptionist at the abortion clinic tells the woman who calls to say that she is 25 weeks pregnant that this abortion is a “week-long procedure.” She then directs her to a local Inn–“a hotel that we work in conjunction with”–which offers room rate discounts and free transportation to and from the airport and to and from all appointments.
When she calls the hotel, sure enough the Live Action investigator is told the price per night is “$49, plus tax.” (We already know that an abortion at 25 weeks costs $8,000 and that the price goes up $1,000 each week so Southwestern Women’s Options is not lacking for resources.)

From there, we learn a great deal about the reality of late second (and third) trimester abortions as the undercover investigator talks to the woman who answered the phone at the hotel.
For example, as noted the abortion can take up to a week. A woman may easily wind up delivering her dead baby at the hotel.

So she asks if she goes into labor in the night, does the hotel offer shuttle service to the abortion clinic? No.

“Most these cases, you guys actually transport yourself, either taxi or you’ll call an ambulance. I don’t think you even go to the clinic.  I think you wind up going to the hospital.”

   But as disgusting/shocking as the whole idea of discount hotel rate is (   Live Action President Lila Rose has called this arrangement  “room-service abortions”), what really ought to capture the attention of those voting next Tuesday on the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance” is what the remainder of the video shows, beginning with what the counselor tells the woman to do if “um, you feel the pregnancy coming out.”
Which is? “Then you want to unlock the door to the hotel room, get your cell phone, and sit on the toilet.”

Much of the remainder of the dialogue is the counselor reassuring the woman, “You don’t have to look at anything,” or clean anything up—a reference to the blood and the baby’s body.
She asks what if the baby (“it”) comes out while she’s on the toilet?

“Just—you  don’t gotta look down. You don’t gotta do anything,” the counselor says. “If you feel like it is too much to see any of this, then do not let yourself look at it.”
Perhaps at some level, the counselor understands how degrading and inhuman and disgusting the entire abortion “procedure” is for she says

“If you want to cover yourself even with, like a towel or something, go ahead.”

   Why? Will the baby be any the less dead? The woman any the less scarred for life? The staff at Southwestern Women’s Options and the local inn any the less morally culpable?
NRL News Today asked NRLC President Carol Tobias for her thoughts four days before the vote in Albuquerque. She replied

 “Americans are shocked and appalled when they learn that unborn children who can feel pain are being aborted.  The attempt by Albuquerque residents to protect these children is a great example of pro-lifers wanting their voice to be heard and wanting to make a difference.”

 You can watch the Live Action video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LG34OUVSwU

Source: NRLC News