Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A late-term abortionist whose life is featured in a new documentary admits that she has allowed mothers to “hold” their aborted babies and even take home a footprint and a “memory box” as if these children had merely died rather than being deliberately killed. Breitbart is reporting that Susan Robinson, M.D., one of the doctors featured in the film, After Tiller, told interviewer Jia Tolentino that she once allowed a mother to hold her aborted baby who had been killed because it had a “fetal indication” – meaning a birth defect.
“Do families often want to engage with their baby like this after an abortion?” Tolentino asked the doctor. “How many people are ready to—as you say—say hello to their baby at the same time that they’re telling it goodbye?”
Robinson responds: “With fetal anomaly patients, we ask them right up front if they plan to hold their baby after it’s born. These patients, their emotional needs are so different from the ones who are looking at their pregnancy as an absolute disaster, who are just thinking, ‘Get it out of me, please, please, please.’ Those patients—the maternal indications patients—they are not relating to their fetus as a baby, they’re relating to it as a problem.
“But with a fetal indications patient—if she refers to it as her baby, I’ll refer to it as her baby. If she’s named the baby, I’ll use the baby’s name too. I would say that most of these patients do decide to see and hold their baby, although many of them have a hard time dealing with the idea at first. We’ll take remembrance photographs, we’ll give them a teddy bear, the footprints. I mean, imagine being six months pregnant and finding out your baby’s missing half its brain, and you’ve got this nursery you’ve painted at home, you’re so ready—I don’t want them to go home from the procedure with absolutely nothing to remember and honor the baby, and its birth.”
The interviewer said that the idea of a mother lovingly holding a baby whose life she had just ended was macabre.
“That’s not macabre!” Robinson insisted, and went on to make it sound as if it was a very gentle and loving act. “We sedate the patient and euthanize their fetus, their baby, with an injection. The fetus passes away, doesn’t feel anything.”
This is contrary to scientific findings which say babies are able to experience pain at 20 weeks gestation, if not earlier. The findings, coupled with the public horror over the brutal slayings of infants born alive after late term abortion procedures in the filthy clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia, sparked a debate on Capitol Hill that led to the House of Representatives passing a measure that restricts abortion to the first 20 weeks after conception.
Guided by their usual self-centered myopia, pro-abortion forces are calling the bill an assault on a “woman’s right to choose” and their allies in the U.S. Senate are expected to block passage of the bill.
If it does manage to pass, President Barack Obama has already vowed to veto it.
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