Breaking: New investigative video shows two abortion clinics breaking AZ sex-selection law
This morning Live Action released undercover video showing two National Abortion Federation clinics in Arizona agreeing to break state law and commit illegal sex-selection abortions.
Today’s video is the third release of Live Action’s “Gendercide” investigation, showing how America’s abortion industry facilitates sex-selection abortions. The first two videos focused on Planned Parenthoods in Texas and New York, states where sex selective abortions are legal.
But Arizona is one of four states where sex-selective abortions are illegal. In March 2011 Governor Jan Brewer signed a statute into law making it a Class 3 Felony to knowingly commit, solicit, coerce, or accept funds for an abortion based on gender or race.
In today’s release Live Action expands its investigation to National Abortion Federation clinics. NAF is an association of independent abortionists and abortion doctors across the U.S., i.e., no Planned Parenthoods.
The video shows employees at Camelback Family Planning in Phoenx and the Tucson Women’s Center in Tucscon either authorizing the investigator to lie on her paperwork about her intentions to abort a girl, or telling her to conceal the motivation she has just revealed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q6_Nx3f4EU[/youtube]
At the Camelback clinic a counselor named Barb advises, “Don’t tell us that, because we don’t want to know.” Referring to the clinic’s abortion doctor, Gabrielle Goodrick, Barb says, “You can tell her. She’s gonna tell you the same thing. Just don’t let it be known! She’s really good about that. You’ll like that about her.”
At the Tucson clinic surgical assistant Francisco tells the woman, “We could lose our license,” but agrees to cover up her sex-selective abortion. “I’ll just forget about it,” he says, “But just be sure not to mention it” to the abortion doctor, and advises her not to affirm on the state-mandated paperwork that her reason for aborting is sex-selection.
Both abortion workers clearly showed intent to violate Arizona’s sex-selection abortion law. Further, Barb indicates she has heard this rationale for abortion before.
Live Action has already provided Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and local law enforcement with full footage of these two investigations and calls for aggressive prosecution.
On May 31 an effort to pass a federal ban on sex-selective abortions failed in the U.S. House. A recent poll by the Lozier Institute found 77% of Americans and 80% of women support a ban on abortions based on gender. Sign the petition to ban abortions based on gender at ProtectOurGirls.com.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Very glad to see Live Action extending its investigations to non-PP abortion centers. I hope this prosecution is successful!
To those of you wondering how PRENDA would be enforced, there’s your answer.
good job, people who kill babies do not have a hard time lying about it, to get the job done.
I can’t wait to hear about how this video was edited as to make it look like illegal activity was occurring were it was not. Come on, prochoicers, this video is unhelpful to your worldview so it must be like totally FAKE, right?
I’ve prayed in front of Camelback Family Clinic several times. UGH, how terrible!
Can’t I PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE say something about her hair?? Please???
“Yeah, Arizona is just crazy about abortions.”
Isn’t it actually that Arizona is not crazy about abortions? :)
“Can’t I PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE say something about her hair?? Please???”
Sure, go ahead.
Sure, go ahead.
Okay. I think when you’re in Barb’s line of work, you need some type of escape. A three pack-a-day addiction to Paul Malls and a bottle of bleach a week is probably not all the uncommon in the abortion industry.
On the positive side, she is able to get the nicotine stains off her fingers while also beautifying her hairdo.
There is a lot of drug use for those that work in the industry. They do need to escape.
What shall it be this time? Firing? Retraining? A news conference with Cecile smiling about PP “protocol?”
Buckle up Planned Parenthood.
Ok, here goes.
Barb, the white guy from the Thompson Twins called. He wants his look back.
Sorry about changing gears here for a minute but since I see Carla here I have to ask her,
Does the grass look greener and the sky look bluer to you in Wisconsin this morning or is it just me? My Wisconsin Badger shirt definitely looks a brighter shade of Red.
Actually, Carla these ones aren’t PP clinics. But having said the the protocol followed will be about the same.
Thanks for reminding me, Praxedes. Congratulations to the people of Wisconsin, you made and intelligent and all around wonderful choice last night.
Thanks JDC! Totally so excited about WALKER’S WIN that I skimmed and assumed these were PP mills!!
The song Walking On Sunshine keeps going through my head Praxedes! :)
Who knew there were so many “isolated” instances of sex selection abortion??!!
Wow, these abortion clinic personnel aren’t rocket scientists, are they?
Even worse than Barb’s “do” is that smock she’s wearing with the hearts all over it.
ANYTHING to portray killing babies as a cheery happy experience. Dress it up as pretty as you can and MAYBE you’ll fool people.
The mill worker looks dead. Her eyes look dead. 35 years? Wow.
LOL when she kept reassuring the young lady…..”oh the doc is so cool. She’s cool. You’ll like her. She’s really cool.”
Gosh, I didn’t even notice the hearts on her smock. Now I notice the abortionist’s name is Gabrielle which is derived from the male name Gabriel which means God is my strength. Prayers sent Barb and Gabrielle’s way!
For my Honey Badger friend Carla:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U
So now you wonderful Christians have been reduced to insulting the appearance of the woman in the video. I saw the workers in the CPC featured in “12th and Delaware.” Suffice to say, they were not Miss USA material.
So now the wonderful CC has been reduced to commenting on the comments instead of the content of the video. Figures.
Yes JoAnna, making comments is a FAR more reprehensible crime than dismembering a defenseless human because she’s a girl.
http://jakubczykonlife.blogspot.com/2011/02/arizona-medical-board-restricts-phoenix.html
Abusing drugs will eventually affect how you look, CC.
You support killing humans based on the appearance of their genitals so I’m not sure why a few comments about a bad hair job gets your undies in such a knot.
Thank you for the song Praxedes!! :)
I notice the eyes CC. Always the eyes. Every photo I have ever seen of Tiller, Carhart, Brigham, Pendergraft, Gosnell(You should know these names btw)or any others in the killing industry has dead eyes.
Ahem. That is my opinion.
Does this really surprize anyone? Am I the only one who hears a cash register ringing? (Cha-ching) It’s all about the money people. Lila Rose exposes what we knew all along, even the pro-aborts knew. As you can see from our resident troll’s comments it really doesn’t even surprize her, they just want to make sure every woman who pays for a dead baby gets one. Just like BHO no matter the reason, no matter the sex, it doesn’t even matter if a baby survives a botched abortion make sure she gets what she paid for “a dead baby”. Whether it is PP or not the M.O. is the same, it is all about the money. I think Carol Everett (the ex-owner of an abortuary) said “I knew if I could get up to 40,000 abortions I could retire a millionaire’, “I knew if I could break down a girls defences, get her hooked on sex and using “birth control”, I could count on every girl getting at least 4-5 abortions”. I was on my way to being a millionaire”. If you haven’t seen Bllood Money” you should get a copy and see it.
“You support killing humans based on the appearance of their genitals”
I support abortion regardless of the reason. It’s a woman’s private decision and, as such, none of my business. Abortion might eliminate some blonde haired children. Am I supporting the elimination of blonde haired children just because I support abortion?
“I’m not sure why a few comments about a bad hair job gets your undies in such a knot”
It’s just not a “few” comments regarding appearance. Cecile Richards’ appearance is frequently lambasted on this blog. While I don’t agree with Abby Johnson and think she’s a fraud, I wouldn’t base my criticism on her looks. (She is pretty but rather overweight!)
And for the record, the worker in the video actually might be liable for criminal prosecution. I say “might” because it depends on whether the court would accept a “sting” video as prima-facie evidence. It also depends on the actual wording of the statute. If no abortion occurs, there might not be a crime. In coaching the “patient,” the worker was, at the least, very unprofessional.
When are you guys going after private physicians who do abortions? So far, all I’m seeing are videos from clinics.
Gendercide, twin reduction, IVF embryo destruction, etc. Tell us again how we had to legalize abortion because “thousands*” of women were dying? Tell us again how we can’t prohibit sex selective abortion because a mere “thousands” have been done in the US? Tell us again how we can’t be pro-life if we don’t personally adopt each and every child concieved? Tell us again how abortion empowers women and makes them equal to men?
(*the “10,000” statistic was a plain lie, see Bernard Nathanson’s books to confirm.)
Tell us, abortion advocates, how sex selective abortion will prevent Nancy Pelosi’s fears of women “dying on the floor?” Tell us all about it.
When are you guys going after the IVF labs. Are you protesting outside them? Shouldn’t you be trying to liberate the “babies” in the test tubes?
And Bernard Nathanson – no bias there, no sireeee….
CC, you are aware, I’m sure, that Bernard Nathanson was one of the founders of NARAL.
PS, I like the hairstyle, but not the profession! When people are doing the right thing, they’re appealing warts-and-all, but when someone is in such a deadly business, it’s easy to think a person is completely UNappealing.
Oh, and to answer cc’s recent comment: Yes, some of us do address private ob/gyn’s who perform abortions. There’s an office of such a doc situated geographically between two abortion clinics in my area. Yes, I have sat on the bench outside the building and prayed. I became pro-life because of the ugliness of what abortion is, not because a pro-lifer was nice to me. But, some abortionists WILL be converted by kindness, so it’s worth a try. An ob/gyn that provides both prenatal care and prenatal death is obviously in a state of what I call “severe and pathological ambivilence.”
I think that the new ministry “And then there were none” is just what the doctor ordered (pun intended).
Based on the actual Arizona law, it doesn’t appear that any laws were broken:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2443p.pdf
Bernard Nathanson might have been a founder of NARAL but he ending up playing for the other team.
Bernard Nathanson might have been a founder of NARAL but he ending up playing for the other team.
Yes. After taking the lives of thousands of children, he decided to stop. I don’t see how this in any way negates his testimony. (Oh, and at the time he stopped, he was still an atheist.)
I’m sure you wouldn’t seek to discredit a former pro-lifer who converted to the pro-choice position.
<I> Abortion might eliminate some blonde haired children. Am I supporting the elimination of blonde haired children just because I support abortion? </i>
If the purpose of the abortion is so the woman in question only has redheads, then yes, you are.
Surprisingly, however, I agree with you, CC. Secular Pro-Life’s blog post today said much the same. If you’re a fan of abortion on demand without apology, then logically you can’t oppose abortion on the grounds of sex-selection.
I hope, however, that you don’t continue to call yourself a feminist if you believe that it’s acceptable for a woman to abort if she’s pregnant with a girl but would prefer a boy.
I may be a pro-life Rascal, but if I tell you that 2 + 2 = 4, it’s a fact. It isn’t less true because you don’t like me. It isn’t less true because I switch political parties or drink decaf instead of regular.
Now, if you abortion advocates are going to stick with “abortion on demand without apology” then guess what? Don’t waste our time with your emotional pleas about who much women “need” to kill their offspring.
Abortion motivations: the wedges that are going to destroy the entire abortion industry worldwide. Abortion was sold to the American people through emotional pleading and by saying that it’s a medical decision. Sex selective abortion, IVF destruction, and twin reduction ALL REVEAL THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION.
@JoAnna: Nailed it. If you are okay with sex-selective abortions feel free to continue calling yourself pro-choice. Your feminist card, on the other hand, is revoked with immediate effect.
Sane, democratically-minded people realize there has to be a limit to state intrusion in private medical affairs. Women seeking abortions should be subjected to no more scrutiny than women who seek to have children (read: none. Not your business). A couple’s decision to have kids could be motivated by the most hateful, racist type of thinking and the state still shouldn’t be privy to them.
What a stupid, false dichotomy you’ve set up.
The deliberate killing of an innocent human being is not “a private medical affair,” Megan.
“ Women seeking abortions should be subjected to no more scrutiny than women who seek to have children”
Explain.
“Sane, democratically-minded people”
You know what, stop right there. If you’re trying to say that people who disagree with you are either insane or not democratically minded, then it is in fact you who is guilty of those charges. Abortion remains a legitimate and controversial issue in modern America, and it’s not because half the country are insane fascists. Furthermore, unless you actually think Ireland fails at either being sane or democratic, you are being just plain ridiculous.
Oh and, btw the latest Gallup poll showed only something like 25% were in favor of abortion being legal for literally any reason, so I guess it must be tough living in a country where 75% of the country is either not sane, not democratic or neither.
The deliberate killing of an innocent human being is not “a private medical affair,” Megan
Until the law grants “personhood” to fetuses, abortion is no different from any other elective surgical procedure.
”you actually think Ireland fails at either being sane or democratic, you are being just plain ridiculous.’
Irish women with some cash just take a short plane ride over to Britain for their abortion. The poor Irish women get babies. Ain’t they got fun!
This is the part where Paladin usually comes in and says something along these lines:
http://goo.gl/KBxk1
Don’t feed the trolls, y’all.
Well, Navi I’m trying to quit my troll feeding addiction. Among other things I don’t actually read CC’s posts anymore (although I have responded to things she’s said if they’re quoted in a post by someone else, so in practice still feeding her). It’s a little harder to quit with Megan because she actually seems somewhat lucid at times (i.e. we actually had a somewhat productive conversation on the Bishops need to man up post).
I notice the word “business” popping up, as in abortion is none of our business. I agree: abortion is a big business, and we want no part of it. And, get your sex life out of my wallet and buy your own ELECTIVE birth control. I don’t want that to be any of MY business either.
There are no other medical procedures that involve the killing of another human being. THAT is why the state–and we–are concerned.
Your feminist card is revoked. You revoked your motherhood privileges all by yourselves.
“I agree: abortion is a big business, and we want no part of it.”
Funny that people here can extoll the virtues of a free market system in one breath, and whine about the abortion “industry” in the next. Everyone’s a rational consumer except for pregnant women. Funny how, in the typical prolife narrative, women are autonomous agents until they set foot inside an abortion clinic.
Megan, abortion should be illegal for the same kind of reasons that any other crime should be illegal. It’s not a violation of one’s free market principles to believe in some sort of criminal law. *eyeroll*
Also, if you want an “economic” type of answer one could argue that a woman is a rational consumer in that she acts to maximize HER OWN utility, but in the case of abortion there is what economists call an externality that is someone is affected by a market activity who is not the buyer or seller. I am talking about the unborn child. There well-being is not taken into account, causing an inefficient decision to be made. Even the most pro-free market acknowledge the government has a role in these cases, which are known as market failure.
I’ll try to resist calling that woman Edgar Winter in drag. Oh, darn.
The people of Ireland got to vote on their abortion laws.
We didn’t.
We got a judicial fiat prohibiting the residents of states from protecting children from nine men who interpreted the following to mean that surely women are guaranteed the right to kill their kids:
“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
You see it in there? Heck, no.
How exactly does the right to life become the right to kill?
It doesn’t happen by democratic means. Europe and Latin America have much much stricter abortion restrictions and much lower abortion rates. All democratically enacted. So, yes abortion proponents are anti democratic. They are not liberals. They just hide behind the liberal label to give a veneer of respectability to their evil.
“Everyone’s a rational consumer except for pregnant women.”
Killing a human being, because he or she is too small to fight back, is hardly what I call a consumer product. That’s just plain sick, Megan. Capitalism doesn’t exist without capitalists. Killing off your customer base just isn’t good capitalism. Even the cigarette manufacturers are wising up to THAT.
If we sign a petition against sex-selective abortions, does this mean that we approve of abortions for other reasons? I think this shows that if someone wants a sex-selective abortion, all they have to do is lie about the reason. If they say abortion is only O.K. in cases of rape, there will be women lying about being raped. Why don’t they just end abortion completely? Is is because of Roe v. Wade? So some judges way back in the 70’s decided something and that’s that? Why can’t we vote on this? It doesn’t sound very democratic to me that a couple of judges can decide for the entire country about such a serious thing that so many people are against. It makes no sense to me. I think the judgement was wrong. I did not vote for those judges, I was a toddler back then. Does not seem fair. So if it can’t be outlawed, how about if they make women undergo counseling before they have an abortion with someone who does not profit in any way by the abortion industry? It only makes sense that those who are making so much money from abortions would lie to women to get them to go through with it.