The following comes from a March 21 story posted on the website of the Catholic News Agency and other sources.
A Houston doctor is under investigation after former employees alleged that several babies were born alive and then killed in gruesome ways.
Deborah Edge, a former assistant to Dr. Douglas Karpen, gave her account of Karpen’s abortion work in a video produced by the pro-life group Life Dynamics.
“When he did an abortion, especially an over-20-week abortion, most of the time the fetus would come completely out before he either cut the spinal cord or he introduced one of the instruments into the soft spot of the fetus in order to kill it … or actually twisting the head off the neck with his own bare hands,” she said.
Edge emphasized that the babies were still alive, moving and breathing. Another former employee in the video, Gigi Aguliar, said one baby opened its eyes and grabbed the abortionist’s finger before he killed it.
One employee said she did not know what Karpen was doing was illegal.
The allegations concern deaths in 2011 at the Aaron Women’s Clinic in Houston. A third former employee appears in the Life Dynamics video, while another anonymous staffer has filed an affidavit Texas Department of State Health Services, the Daily Mail reports.
The former employees took cell phone pictures of babies with gashes in their necks after they were allegedly killed at the clinic, LifeNews.com says. They allege that Karpen killed babies well after 24 weeks into pregnancy, at a cost between $4,000 and $5,000.
Karpen also runs two other abortion clinics in Texas.
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said he read “with disgust” about the allegations that Dr. Douglas Karpen performed “illegal late-term abortions surrounded by appalling sanitary conditions in his clinic.”
“The Harris County authorities should perform a full-scale investigation and take action against those who broke state law,” he said in a May 15 statement.
Sara Marie Kinney, a spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney, said several district attorney employees are looking into the allegations.
Carrie Williams, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, told the Houston Chronicle the agency is aware of the allegations and investigating it with “a very high priority.”
Dewhurst invoked the case of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortionist convicted last week on three charges of first degree murder for killing babies who survived abortions.
The pro-life group Operation Rescue has said it has been investigating Karpen for three years.
“For nearly three years, authorities have ignored our complaints and done nothing while horrific late-term babies continued to be aborted in an apparently illegal and barbaric manner,” group president Troy Newman said May 16….
Karpen and his wife own an elegant house priced at about $2.5 million
at 612 Little John Drive in the Sherwood Forest section of Houston.
Thus far, major media have either ignored or downplayed the Karpen
atrocities. The Houston Chronicle and the UK Daily Mail have been
reporting.
To read the entire Catholic News Agency story, click here.
To see Life Dynamics video of ex-employees talking, click here.
This madness has to end. They need to take these guys off the streets.
Lets begin with getting rid of those in power, like the Obama’s of the world, the Pelosis etc….start high and then go down the ladder….
NO Mark from PA, we need to take the Party of Death, apparently your Party, out of circulation forever!
May God have mercy on your blinded soul,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Our society is in grave trouble when even one person does not understand that this is evil; let alone someone who was working along side this butcher.
yes alice….we are living really ugly times with very strong spiritual battles that many do not see or are not equipped to handle.
Even our youth have been sold many lies. I feel for our youth today. I feel terribly much for them, I cry for them because this is a very dark secular world. Even our kids who seek to try to be virtuous and good are constantly being bullied and or tempted just to endure. Young men are treating their women like sluts without even considering that is what is happening, young women are selling themselves short thinking its the norm and they don’t know what real love is because this world has sold them a cheap love, fake love ….it’s breaking families up. But it’s not all lost because God still gives us new life….so there is always a fresh start each day….
I ask many to pray the Chaplet of divine Mercy these upcoming weeks please and offer them up for our youth, for the message of chastity, God graces etc …..the truth needs to be preached, parents need to be empowered as well…etc etc St. Padre Pio pray for us, St. Monica pray for us, St. Augustine pray for us, Virgin Mary, our blessed mum, pray for us. Amen!
Knew more of this was coming, and there are plenty more out there……
Yes Canisius, praise God for those groups that help expose this, their efforts are always being silenced but it is their true love and perseverance with fortitude that helps get this exposed because you know the liberal media will only wash it down.
One employee claimed she did not know killing a baby who survived an abortion was illegal. How could the person not know it was illegal? The abortionist twisted the head off the neck of a baby. One baby opened its eyes and grabbed the abortionist’s finger before he murdered it. This baby was obviously pleading for its life. Not only the abortionist, but all the people in the room were monsters. Did they not have any human feelings? Would you want these people to babysit one of your children? God have mercy if a baby cried and annoyed them.
Sarah it’s pure wickedness. I just don’t get how merciless these people are.
We don’t need a law to tell us what is considered murder or not but as you can see what happens when there is to much government power, they don’t allow room for people to discern well. It’s heartbreaking, poor babies. This sort of news just keeps upsetting me and getting me so angry. These people are monsters….no feelings and yet you have people who idolize Obama and his platform….they rather sacrifice more innocent blood just to keep a monster in office that feeds into their own agendas, they have a lot to gain at the expense of murdering babies!! Here that Miguelito!
Abeca.
You are most probably already doing this, but turn your JUST anger into ACTION!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Abeca,
Thank God, I for one did not need any so called government, priest, bishop, or even Pope to tell me that playing God was terribly wrong!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Sarah,
We have already had several incidences of “Baby Sitters” killing the children they were hired to protect because they cried too much!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Lets offer up a moment of silence in memory of these innocent babies….I can’t stop crying…..
The investigators should explore also for cannibalism in these cases, which is likely to be well hidden.
Skai,
We know that is already happening in Communist China!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
What further evidence does society need that abortion is homicide? These cases need to be publicized and the perprators tried on murder charges.
Half of us knew it would always come to this; the other half knew it had started from the beginning with this.