Partial-birth Abortionist Opens Shop in D.C. Area, WaPo Buries Story on Page B10
Three weeks ago, the Washington Post reported on the front page of its November 10 Metro section that a "Nebraska doctor who is one of the few in the country to perform abortions late in a pregnancy said Wednesday that he would open new clinics in Iowa and the Washington area."
At the time, Carhart refused to disclose where he would open his D.C.-area clinic, but said that it would be in a jurisdiction that was favorable to abortion.
"The laws are more favorable in these other jurisdictions, and we're going to do the maximum the law allows," Carhart told the Washington Post.
Stein filed an 8-paragraph follow-up story in today's Post, having received new information from an abortion clinic official that Carhart would be joining that clinic, based in Germantown, Md. That follow-up story, however, was buried at the bottom of page 10 of the paper's December 1 Metro section.
While Stein did feature both a quote from a clinic representative and a quote from an Operation Rescue statement, the Post staffer didn't alert readers to the fact that Carhart's lawyers have twice been before the Supreme Court defending the partial-birth abortion procedure in which a partially-delivered baby's skull is punctured, the brain suctioned out and skull collapsed before the head is delivered.
In the first case, decided in 2000, the Court struck down as unconstitutional a Nebraska law barring partial-birth abortion. Seven years later, the Court upheld a federal ban on the procedure.
For its part, the Baltimore Sun's coverage of the story also brought to readers' attention the fact that [emphasis mine]:
Carhart's move to Maryland comes amid an investigation into the practices of a New Jersey doctor, Steven C. Brigham, whom authorities ordered in August to stop practicing medicine in the state after it was revealed he was having patients drive from New Jersey to perform late-term abortions on them in Maryland, where Brigham had no medical license.
One of those patients suffered a ruptured bowel and uterus during a botched abortion by Brigham and his Maryland colleague Nicola I. Riley in August, and had to be transported by helicopter to Johns Hopkins Hospital for emergency surgery.
Riley's license was suspended in August, and the Maryland Board of Physicians last week revoked the license of another of Brigham's colleagues, George Shepard, Jr., for practicing medicine with Brigham in the state.
Local opponents of abortion said the Brigham case and Carhart's move here indicate that Maryland's less restrictive regulations have made it a hub for doctors wanting to perform late-term abortions in a more lax environment.
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It's sad that a doctor who
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 1:20pm.
It's sad that a doctor who performs a legal procedure must be so cautious when choosing a clinic location. We don't want a repeat of the Tiller case.
I don't know that the Post buried the follow up story - perhaps the initial article wasn't of much interest to readers, so putting the follow up on the front page would have been a misuse of valuable space.
~Yeah
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 1:30pm.
It's SO INCREDIBLY FRICKIN' SAD that these noble servants of humanity can't perform abortions openly on every street corner.
After all, about 50 million babies have been murdered in the past 35+ years and, like, eight abortionists have been killed in that period of time.
It's an unfortunate
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 1:52pm.
It's an unfortunate situation, but we can't very well have people shooting others over moral disagreements.
Perhaps you need to be late term aborted
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 2:00pm.
as well.
And who will protect a defenseless embryo? Certainly not you.
Agree no shooting but to call
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 2:03pm.
Agree no shooting but to call it just a "moral disagreement" is an understatement for the very literal and clearly, permeditated murdering of unborn children. I would not let them off the hook so easy as to classify it as that. They are not standing up for this group of weak and innocent; who have not learned the language yet. And WE have all been in that position. If we had been killed, we would not be here. It is KILLING people, as proof we are all people. and have all been there. The unborn are indeed people. M-B
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Right Ted,
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:32pm.
because THAT ("people shooting others over moral disagreements") doesn't happen to any degree over any other issue in society. I wonder how many people have been shot so far in California in drug violence...this week?
Yet the doctors performing
Submitted by Guttermouth's Return on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:37pm.
Yet the doctors performing the controversial, albeit legal operation still fear for their lives.
I wasn't aware of that, Ted.
Submitted by bkeyser on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:49pm.
Do they travel only in armored vehicles? Do they usually have concealed carry permits where possible? Is there an entourage of security with them whenever they are outside the confines of their homes or offices?
I'm sure that every five years or so when some nutjob attacks an abortionist, it must send chills through the spines of doctors who perform that service. But fear for their lives? Seriously? Are they so committed to killing unborn babies that even the constant threat of being burned at the stake is no deterent to their overarching mission in life?
Seems a bit overstated to me, but I'm not a committed baby-killer.
It's sad alright
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 5:37pm.
It's sad that in the 21st century, some people support the barbaric and uncivilized act of killing babies, up to and including birth, and call it a 'womans choice', as if the baby doesn't exist.
They should have added...
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 1:26pm.
What % of these young aborted children were "minorities." This proves to me that this is a spiritual issue. One that the Dem leadership abhores, otherwise they would be the first ones to ban abortion to get more voters. Simply amazing powers at work. M-B
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Black Genocide
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 1:46pm.
What with the disclosure that 9 ot the 10 most affluent neighborhoods in the US are in and around DC, the Liberals see a renewed need to severely truncate the birthrate of "undesirables" (Ruth Bader Ginsberg).
Truth is, there are just too many blacks hanging around DC to suit the liberal establishment. Eugenics is alive and well among Democrat Progressives.
And we all know this doctor did not relocate to Washington DC because of a sudden need to exterminate white kids.
As long as they're liberal
Submitted by pwoz on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 2:18pm.
As long as they're liberal babies. The "doc" is doing future conservative babies a favor. There, I said it.
Partial Birth Abortion is Inhuman Brutality
Submitted by kraythe on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:49pm.
Go on youtube and look up a demonstration or video of a partial birth abortion. Come back here and if you arent sick to the stomach then you arent human and certainly should not procreate.
In a partial birth abortion labor is induced to deliver a baby sometimes only a couple weeks before due date or the doctor reaches in and grabs the baby by the foot. With the head still inside the vagina, and often the infant kicking and struggling desperately for life, the next process begins. Before the head clears the vagina, the doctor takes a large hollow spike and drives it into the base of the baby's skull. Then the doctor actuates a vaccume pump which liquifies the babys brain and sucks it out into the vaccume. A few seconds after this starts the baby will stop kicking as they are now brain dead. As evacuation of the brain is complete, the skull of the baby will implode. The crushed skull of the child is extracted and the remains of the baby are tossed in the nearest trash can.
The reason it is partial birth abortion is because if the baby's head clears the vagina, and the procedure is carried out, it would be classified as murder of a child but leaving the baby inside and suffocating means its just "a fetus". That is such a silly rule if you think about it. Of course, why dont we just deliver the baby, hold it up in front of the camera and run the procedure for all to see. Abhorent? But in reality no different than what they are actually doing. Some partial birth abortionists support post term abortions up to two years of age.
This guy makes me sick. No one that could do this is human. And if you support this, stay away from my kids for your own safety less you find out what a father's love really is.
The Democrats left in office
Submitted by humanzee on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:29pm.
The Democrats left in office don't want their mistresses or illegitimate children becoming an issue in 2012. They need this guy to get rid of the "evidence."
Margaret sanger
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 3:55pm.
would be so happy to hear of a new abortion provider in the minority neighborhood or city.