Bio-Ethicist: Planned Parenthood Videos Suggest that Kids Born Alive Were Killed for their Brains

By Published on October 30, 2015

Bioethicist Dr. Dennis Sullivan laid out key observations about the latest undercover Planned Parenthood video, taking aim at what he called “callousness and indifference” and explaining why he’s left with the “unavoidable conclusion” that some fetuses might be “born alive.”

The key question surrounding the 11th video that was released this week by the Center for Medical Progress, a pro-life group, surrounds whether Dr. Amna Dermish, the subject who was secretly recorded, is actually admitting to performing illegal partial-birth abortions.

Dermish is seen in the video seemingly describing how she sometimes turns a baby breech — a position in which the fetus emerges feet-first rather than head-first — during abortion procedures.

“I can if I need to. I generally don’t have to do that. I don’t usually do it in the 16 to 18 weeks,” she seemingly said after being asked if she can convert to that position during abortions. “With a further gestation I will sometimes do that if it’s a cephalic presentation [head-first], just because it’s easier to get.”

Sullivan, director of the Center for Bioethics at Cedarville University Cedarville, Ohio, said that it is “tempting” to combine statements made by Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s senior director of medical services, in the first undercover video with those made by Dermish in this new clip; Sullivan had previously wondered whether Nucatola, too, was discussing partial-birth abortions.

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