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this investigation of Planned Parenthood's based on false premises one after another after another it's time to stop wasting time get on it with meaningful work and stop picking on women and trying to take their choice away I yield back the balance of my time the time of the gentleman has expired we welcome our distinguished witnesses today do you and each of you swear that the testimony that you are about to give shall be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God and I'll now begin by introducing today's witnesses the first witness is dr. Anthony levatino dr.

levatino is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist over the course of his career dr. levatino has practice obstetrics and gynecology in both private and university settings including as an associate professor of ob/gyn at the Albany Medical College and dr. levatino we'll begin with you welcome Thank You chairman and members of the committee I only have five minutes so I'm gonna get right to it second trimester DNA abortions perform between roughly 14 and 24 weeks of gestation your patient today is 17 years old she's 22 weeks pregnant her baby is the length of your hand plus a couple of

inches and she's been feeling her baby kick for the last several weeks but she's asleep on an operating room table you walk into that operating room scrubbed and gound and after removing laminaria you introduce a suction catheter into the uterus this is a 14 French suction catheter if she were 12 weeks pregnant or less basically the width of your hand or smaller you could basically do the entire procedure with this but babies this big don't fit through catheters this size after suctioning the amniotic fluid out from around the baby you introduce an instrument called the sulfur clamp it's

about 13 inches long it's made of stainless steel the business end of this clamp is about two and a half inches long and a half inch wide there are rows of sharp teeth this is a grasping instrument when it gets ahold of something it does not let go a DNA procedure is a blind abortion so picture yourself introducing this and grabbing anything you can blindly and pull and I do mean hard and out pops a leg about that big which you put down in the table next to you reaching again pull again pull out an arm about the same length which you put down on the table next to you and use this instrument

again and again to tear out the spine the intestines the heart and lungs head and the baby that size is about the size of a large plum can't see it but you pretty good idea you got it if you've got your instrument around something and your fingers are spread about as far as they go you know you did it right if you crush down on the instrument white material runs out of the cervix that was the babies brains and you could pull out skull pieces and you have a day like I had a lot of time sometimes a little face comes back and stares back at you congratulations you just successfully performed a

second trimester Dini abortion you just affirmed her right to choose one more question dr. levatino why did you end your practice of doing abortions I did over 1,200 abortions over a four-year period in private practice not counting the ones that I did during my training I met my wife at during my first year of training at Albany Medical Center we got married about a year later and found that we had an infertility problem after years of failed infertility treatment and several years trying to adopt a child we were blessed with the adopting a little girl that mean we named Heather in August of

1978 as sometimes happens in those situations my wife got pregnant the very next month and we had two children ten months apart two months short of my daughter Heather's sixth birthday she was killed in an auto accident literally died in our arms in the back of an ambulance anyone who has children might think they have some idea of what that feels like but unless you've been through it yourself you have no idea whatsoever I know people find it hard to believe but what do you do after disaster you bury your child and then you go back to your life and I don't remember exactly how long it was

after my daughter died that I showed up that Albany Medical Center Oh our number nine to perform my first second trimester D&E abortion I wasn't thinking of it as anything special this was routine to me but I reached in literally pulled out an arm or leg and got sick you know earlier on I described stacking up body parts on the side of the table it's not too you know gross people out use simple term when you're doing an abortion you need to keep inventory you have to make sure you get two arms and two legs and all the pieces if you don't your patients going to come back infected bleeding or

dead so I soldiered on and finish that abortion and I know it sounds as I said hard for people to believe but I'm I'm telling you straight up my experience you know after over 1200 abortions first and second trimester up to 24 weeks and all the rest of it and being very dedicated to it well the first time in my life I really looked I really looked at that pile of body parts on the side of the table and I didn't see her wonderful right to choose and I didn't see all the money I just made all I could see was somebody's son or daughter and I stopped doing late term abortions after that and several months later stopped doing all abortions thank you