A California abortionist has been caught on video holding a pair of scissors to the throat of a pro-life protestor while talking about his “darkened heart” and how he never listens to Christ.
Operation Rescue is reporting on the appalling video which caught Dr. Robert Santella, an abortionist at the Family Planning Associates abortion facility in San Diego, coming out of the clinic to confront a pro-life activist. The doctor is described as “hissing and growling in a demonic voice” as he holds scissors to the activist’s throat while professing that he loves killing babies and that “I never listen to Christ.”
“I do have a darkened heart,” Santella says. “I do, I do. Very much so.”
During the whole confrontation, a smiling security guard stands just a few feet away.
Allyson Smith, who filmed the rant, noticed that Santella was wearing an identification badge from Sharp Healthcare which runs a group of hospitals in San Diego County. She immediately contacted the hospital, sent them the video and demanded to know why they were allowing this “crazed doctor” to be affiliated with their hospital.
The hospital promptly replied: “Thank you for your message. We appreciate your concerns regarding this physician, and we can assure you that he is no longer affiliated with any of our hospitals, he is not employed by our medical groups, and he does not practice or have admitting privileges at any of our facilities. We are currently looking into other aspects of this matter, and we will provide updates as we have more information.”
In addition to providing the video to the public, Smith also discovered that disciplinary action had been filed against Santella by the California Medical Board just last month. The doctor was charged with negligence and unprofessional conduct that “demonstrates an unfitness to practice medicine.”
“The allegations detail his conduct with five female patients that received dangerous drugs from Santella over the course of up to 25 years,” writes Cheryl Sullenger for Operation Rescue. “He failed to conduct physical exams before administering drugs, failed to record the fact that he administered drugs to them in the patient medical records, and failed to monitor the patients’ other serious conditions.”
In the year 2000, Santella’s medical license was also revoked for failing to maintain adequate medical records.
Operation Rescue also learned that Santella served five years of probation in a 1984 disciplinary case that involved serious patient care issues for three female patients:
• Santella conducted a hysterectomy on a patient who had undergone an elective abortion one month prior to the surgery. He failed to respond when her post-operative condition deteriorated, and left the hospital after a second surgery before she had stabilized.
• Santella admitted a woman to the hospital for pelvic inflammatory disease, but didn’t bother to check on her for 25 hours after her admittance. It was later learned that Santella had misdiagnosed her actual condition, which was a urinary tract infection.
• Santella failed to recognize the danger signs of pre-eclampsia in another of his patients and delayed hospital admission for two days, resulting in the still birth of her baby.
“If only the California Medical Board had taken stronger measures with Santella when he showed incompetence in 1984 and 2000, a lot of human misery could have been avoided,” said Operation Rescue president Troy Newman.
“Some people are not fit to practice medicine, and Robert Santella is among them. We pray the Medical Board will take sterner measures to limit his options so he will be forced to look for another line of work. We also pray he gets the spiritual and mental health assistance he obviously requires.”
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