Take Action: Support Resolution Calling for Investigations of Illegal Abortion Practices

by Bethany Monk
 
Caution: This article contains graphic material.

Sen. Mike Lee introduced a resolution Monday that calls on federal, state and local governments to investigate illegal abortion practices and unsanitary conditions.

The Utah lawmaker is calling on the Senate to protect women and girls from “abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.” Lee also condemned the deplorable practices uncovered at abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion center. Gosnell is charged with murdering seven newborns and one pregnant woman.

“The facts of the Gosnell case are disturbing and heartbreaking,” Lee said. “The lack of oversight at abortions facilities puts women’s lives at risk and leads to the kind of unconscionable practices we have seen recently.”

A 2011 Grand Jury report says Gosnell delivered “live, viable babies in the third trimesters of pregnancy — then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors.”  It also documents that Gosnell’s clinic “reeked of animal urine,” and that furniture and blankets “were stained of blood.” Scattered throughout the center, “in the basement, in a freezer, in jars and plastic jugs, were fetal remains.”

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