Abortionist Carhart at Oct. 29 D.C. Health Care Reform Rally, photo by Wendy Wright, CWA
Late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, under investigation in Nebraska for performing abortions while medicated and with unsterilized equipment, was caught attending a D.C. rally today for health care reform.
Carhart knows what the secular media, National Right to Life Committee and the US Bishops’ pro-life conference all understand– that all committee-passed health reform bills absolutely fund abortion.
Aug 5,2009 By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, WASHINGTON.(AP) – Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue.
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has issued a detailed memorandum that explains how the proposed public plan and the proposed premium subsidy programs would be funded, and why the Hyde Amendment would not apply to the proposed new programs. Another NRLC memorandum explains why all of the funds that would be spent by the public plan, and all of the funds that would be used to subsidize health plans under the premium subsidy programs, are in reality and in law “federal funds.”
The conference of U.S. Catholic Bishops issued an unprecedented emergency action bulletin Oct. 23, instructing that this USCCB Nationwide Bulletin Insert on health care reform be printed or hand-stuffed in every parish bulletin and/or distributed in pews or at church entrances as soon as possible.” The bulletin warns that
“[all current federal] committee-approved health reform bills are seriously deficient on the issues of abortion…[none] retain long-standing current policies against abortion funding or abortion coverage mandates.”
CARHART misses late-term abortion money
LeRoy Carhart had his Kansas medical license renewed by the Kansas Healing Arts Board in June, a full seven months after the Board declared Women’s Health Care Services (where Carhart practiced in Kansas) had been providing illegal post-viability abortions from 2003-2008.
Kansans for Life presented the Board last week with an additional 15,000 petitions, hand-signed by Kansans asking the Board to stand behind its position that the Wichita facility was illegally providing abortions, and revoke the involved licensees: Kris Neuhaus, LeRoy Carhart, Susan Robinson and Shelly Sella. (8,000 petitions were submitted by KFL on this issue in 2007)
Carhart told Omaha media, two days after George Tiller’s May 31, 2009 death, that “Team Tiller” (as he termed the physicians that flew in to abort at the now-closed Women’s Health Care Services) wanted to keep doing late-term abortions in Kansas.
In September, Carhart told Wichita media that he was anxious to open a facility in Kansas near an airport, indicating he wanted the out-of-state business that state records show has comprised over 95% of abortions done on viable babies in Kansas.
Hat tip: Concerned Women for America, American Papist
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Does anyone know the technique used by Carhart to do late-term abortions? Just judging from the fact that he did so many partial-birth abortions, my guess would be that he kills the babies in the womb (perhaps using Tiller’s digoxin-in-the-heart method) and then uses the technique he was so adept at to remove the corpse–delivering all but the head, making a hole at the base of the skull and sucking out the brains.
It occurs to me that perhaps there never was any need to pause short of full breech delivery, except to avoid charges of infanticide. [Carhart made some cryptic comments about "applying traction" in testimony to the US Supreme Court.] In that case, Carhart might well be skipping the last two steps.
Since 1998, Kansas abortionists are required to report how many of the post 22 week abortions they do are partial-birth abortions. None have been reported since 1999. So, while working for Tiller, Carhart may have used Tiller’s technique of a digoxin injection into the baby’s heart to kill it and then delivery via induction. Julie Albin-Schmidt of Nebraska Right to Life: You are invited to tell us about Carhart’s partial-birth abortion history in Nebraska. (I’ll send her a message on Facebook.) I do know that Carhart testified that the Nebraska PBA ban was bad because it said the baby could not be killed once a certain amount of the baby was out, claiming this meant he could break the law by accident. When the lawyer asked what he meant he said sometimes an extremity dropped down (into the vagina I guess he meant) first. The lawyer asked him what he did. He said he removed it by rotaton and counter-rotation, or the traction you refer to. The lawyer asked him if the fetus was alive at the time and Carhart said “yes” adding that he knew that because he could see the fetal heartbeat on the sonogram. What a guy. (He was under oath–you can google the original. I have it if you can’t find it.)
I believe that when Carhart was talking about “breakng the law by accident,” he was referring to the standard D&E (Dismemberment and Evacuation) technique for second and third trimester abortions, where th pulls out various extremities and severs them from the body.
The federal PBA ban was designed to get around this by spelling out that all but the head in a breech delivery, or the part above the navel in a head delivery, must be out of the uterus for it to be illegal. Furthermore, the baby must still be alive at this stage for it to qualify as partial-birth abortion.
My guess of yesterday is based on the idea that Carhart’s abortions may still use the partial-birth technique but with the baby killed earlier, so as not to violate the law.
Perhaps one of his former employees (who are now telling other details about what went on in Carhart’s clinics), knows how he does abortions beyond the 22nd week nowadays.