Last week, a Planned Parenthood official testified before the Florida legislature in opposition to a bill that would require an abortion doctor to provide medical care to any infant who survives an attempted abortion.

"If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?” asked Florida representative Jim Boyd.

"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician," replied Planned Parenthood lobbyist Alisa LaPolt Snow.

Megyn Kelly covered the story on her show yesterday:

Planned Parenthood has released a statement that supposedly clarifies its opposition to letting born-alive infants die, but that's not actually what the statement says:

Last week, a panel of Florida state legislators demanded speculation about a vague set of extremely unlikely and highly unusual medical circumstances.  Medical guidelines and ethics already compel physicians facing life-threatening circumstances to respond, and Planned Parenthood physicians provide high-quality medical care and adhere to the most rigorous professional standards, including providing emergency care. In the extremely unlikely event that the scenario presented by the panel of legislators should happen, of course Planned Parenthood would provide appropriate care to both the woman and the infant.

As you can see, Planned Parenthood states that "ethics" compel physicians to respond appropriately, but it never claims the law already requires--or should require--an abortionist to provide life-saving care to an infant born alive. Then the statement claims that if a child were in fact born alive as a result of a botched abortion claims that "of course" Planned Parenthood would provide "appropriate" care to "the infant" who had been born alive.

Of course, Planned Parenthood does not define what constitutes "appropriate" care. Would allowing a born-alive infant struggling for air to suffocate constitute "appropriate" care? Planned Parenthood doesn't say. What about a child born alive but bleeding heavily? Would a doctor let the child bleed out? Again, Planned Parenthood doesn't say. They continue to claim the decision about what's appropriate should be left to the doctor who attempted, moments before the birth of a living child, to kill that human being in utero.

Kristan Hawkins

Pigman 1270 reported...

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/13/us/rape-and-incest-just-1-of-all-abortions.html

Jezebel: There are "extremely few" cases of babies who survive abortions being killed, so what

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2921226/posts

Jezebel observes that very few babies are born alive after attempted abortions, so why do we need a law to protect them?  http://jezebel.com/5993480/planned-parenthood-does-not-endorse-infanticide-and-we-cant-believe-that-even-needs-to-be-clarified