The following comes from a March 19 LiveAction News article by Cassy Fiano:
It seems like common sense: if a baby survives an abortion, he or she should immediately be given medical care and doctors should work to save their lives. Unfortunately, this isn’t always what happens, and abortion advocates (like our own president, Barack Obama) fight fiercely against regulations protecting abortion survivors. And Planned Parenthood’s take on what to do if a baby survives an abortion and is struggling on the table, is that it should be up to the woman and her doctor — you know, the people who were just trying to kill that very same baby.
Now another radical abortion advocate is echoing that sentiment. Diana Greene Foster testified during the Senate Judiciary Hearings last week, disagreeing that a baby born alive after an abortion should receive “all available medical care for survival”…
“Just to be clear,” said U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-La.). “Nobody disagrees that a child born alive should get all available medical care for survival?”
“I do disagree,” Foster replied. “I can imagine situations where the doctors and nurses have decided that there’s not a point in medical intervention. And by whisking the baby away [to attempt treatment], you’ve taken away a woman’s chance to hold her child and say goodbye.”
“Okay, so if there is care available towards survival, you think that in some cases that care should be denied?” Vitter asked.
“I think that the law says that all– that the child has to be taken away and receive medical care if there are signs of life – which doesn’t allow for the physician or nurse, or more importantly the wishes of the family, to say that they don’t think that care is going to help in this case and that they want to be able to hold their child,” Foster said.
“And if the care could lead to survival, do you think that should be able to be denied?” Vitter asked again.
“I think that doctors and nurses and women themselves know best whether care would lead to survival,” Foster concluded. “This bill doesn’t allow that judgment to be made.”
It’s even more horrifying to know that Foster made these remarks in front of an abortion survivor, Melissa Ohden.
Who is Vitter? The article quotes testimony from Senate hearings. The article does NOT identify the person named Vitter in the testimony. I had to separately go to Google to remind myself that there is a Republican Senator from Louisiana named David Vitter.
A simple sentence in the introductory paragraph would help greatly.
Thank you. The story has been updated.
Perfect. That small note clarifies greatly.
Probably very few people Diana Greene Foster would not kill, so immersed in the Culture of Death is she. And this woman is someone’s daughter, neighbor, friend – does she look like a crazy killer? No, but then again, Hitler’s most ardent followers didn’t either.
Dr. Foster’s views are the most perverse and wicked I have ever read. What she espouses, to the best of my knowledge, constitutes under law in every State at least first degree manslaughter (and perhaps murder by depraved indifference—the abortionist, having removed the fully developed child from the protection of the womb has raised a duty of care), As if her views themselves were not disturbing enough, most of the Senators sat there unmoved—as if someone had just recited a recipe for apple pie! Where was the outrage from the Senators? Questions to her sanity? Labeling her as inciting to homicide (the baby, born, already outside the womb and viable if care were provided) is at law (even after Roe v. Wade and its progeny) a…
HUMAN BEING!!!!! No, no. Just political correctness run AMOK which, sure as hell exists, will submerge our society into further depravities beyond description.
Watching this, I thought I heard the strains of “Deutschland uber Alles” being played, and another Final Solution being planned.
“Where was the outrage from the Senators?” = “WHERE” is the outrage from the poster named (k)aritas when bishops and priests fail to publicly uphold Humanae Vitae from the pulpit?” Is their silence a killing of the TRUTH?
Diana Greene Foster must not believe in the existence of hell. Do all of our bishops believe? It’s obviously important to Diana, to “hold on” to, two last names in order for her to feel worth. it is not important to Diana that a surviving baby, who is “HOLDING ON” to life, be shown any worth. Diana Greene Foster shows similar traits to many who have the authority to effect change. Meanwhile, silence & cowardice, hide under the banner of false compassion.