Washington Post: Abortion Doctor Comments on New York Woman’s Death

Pregnant undercover operatives pretending to seek abortions captured what may be the first recorded remarks from LeRoy Carhart regarding a New York woman who died in February after getting a late-term abortion in Germantown, The Washington Post reports.

Carhart is a physician who performs late-term abortions at Reproductive Health Services in Germantown as well as splitting his time at a clinic in Nebraska. 

The Post reports that there were two secret videotapings at Carhart’s Nebraska clinic. The anti-abortion group Live Action released the remarks to The Post and has posted them on its website.

According to The Post’s account, Carhart is taped saying that the woman who died had “an allergic reaction” to her pregnancy that was unrelated to the procedure and that the baby had severe deformity.

The Post reported it obtained an extended transcript of the anti-abortion group's footage and the group left out Carhart’s remarks that he offered women alternatives and would do everything he could to help the baby.

The full story is posted at WashingtonPost.com.

Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, 29, of New Rochelle, NY, died Feb. 7 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville, days after she had an abortion at Germantown Reproductive Health Services, Patch has reported.

According to the medical examiner’s office, “disseminated intravascular coagulation” and  “amniotic fluid embolism” were listed as causes of death, Patch has reported.

Amniotic fluid embolism, a rare condition, is when amniotic fluid escapes into the blood stream, according to the medical examiner's office.

Disseminated intravascular coagulation is a bleeding condition in which the mechanism that controls blood clotting becomes overactive, eventually exhausting the body’s blood-clotting ability.

Carhart’s description of “an allergic reaction,” The Post reports, was an attempt to put amniotic fluid embolism in lay terms.