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This investigation of Planned Parenthood,

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who's based on false premises,[br]one after another after another.

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Time to stop wasting time,[br]get on with meaningful work.

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And stop picking on women and trying[br]to take their choice away.

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I yield back the balance of my time.

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The time of the gentleman has expired.

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We welcome our distinguished[br]witnesses today.

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Do you and each of you swear

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that the testimony that you are about[br]to give shall be the truth,

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the whole truth, and nothing[br]but the truth, so help you God?

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And I'll now begin by introducing[br]today's witnesses.

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The first witness is Dr.

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Anthony Levatino.[br]Dr.

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Levitino is a board certified[br]obstetrician gynecologist.

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Over the course of his career, Dr.

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Levitino has practiced obstetrics

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and gynecology in both private[br]and University settings,

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including as an associate professor[br]of OB GYN at the Albany Medical College.

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And Dr.[br]Levitino will begin with.

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You welcome.

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Thank you, chairman[br]and members of the committee.

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I only have five minutes,[br]so I'm going to get right to it.

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Second Trimester D any abortions perform

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between roughly 14 and 24[br]weeks of gestation.

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Your patient today is 17 years old.

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She's 22 weeks pregnant.

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Her baby is the length of your[br]hand plus a couple of inches.

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And she's been feeling her baby[br]kicked for the last several weeks.

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But she's asleep on an[br]operating room table.

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You walk into that operating room scrubbed[br]and gown, and after removing laminaria,

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you introduce a suction[br]catheter into the uterus.

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This is a 14 French suction catheter.

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If she were twelve weeks pregnant or less.

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Basically, the width[br]of your hand is smaller.

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You could basically do[br]the entire procedure with this.

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But babies this big don't fit[br]through catheters this size.

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After suctioning the amniotic fluid out

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from around the baby, you introduce[br]an instrument called the sofa clamp.

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It's about 13 inches long.

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It's made of stainless steel.

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The business end of this clamp is about

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two and a half inches long[br]and a half inch wide.

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There are rows of sharp teeth.

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This is a grasping instrument.

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When it gets a hold of something,[br]it does not let go.

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A DNA procedure is a blind abortion.

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So picture yourself introducing this

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and grabbing anything you[br]can blindly and pull.

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And I do mean hard.

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And I'll pop the leg about that big

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which you put down on the table next[br]to you, reaching again, pull again.

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Pull out an arm about the same length

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which you put down[br]on the table next to you.

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And use this instrument again and again

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to tear out the spine,[br]the intestines, the heart and lungs.

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Head in the baby that size is[br]about the size of a large plum.

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Can't see it, but you pretty good idea.[br]You've got it.

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If you've got your instrument around[br]something and your fingers are spread

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about as far as they go,[br]you know you did it right.

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If you crush down on the instrument,[br]white material runs out of the cervix.

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That was the baby's brains and you[br]can pull out skull pieces.

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You have a day like I had a lot of times.

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Sometimes a little face comes[br]back and stares back at you.

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Congratulations.

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You just successfully performed[br]a second trimester denied abortion.

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You just affirmed her right to choose.[br]One more question,

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doctor levitino. Why did you end[br]your practice of doing abortions?

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I did over 1200 abortions over a four[br]year period in private practice.

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Now counting the ones that I[br]did during my training.

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I met my wife during my first year[br]of training at Albany medical center.

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We got married about a year later and[br]found that we had an infertility problem.

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After years of failed infertility[br]treatment and several years trying

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to adopt a child,[br]we were blessed with adopting a little

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girl that we named Heather[br]in August of 1978.

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As sometimes happens in those situations,

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My wife got pregnant the very next month[br]and we had two children ten months apart,

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two months short of my daughter Heather's[br]6th birthday, she was killed in an auto

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accident and literally died in her[br]arms in the back of an ambulance.

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Anyone who has children might think they[br]have some idea of what that feels like,

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but unless you've been through it[br]yourself, you have no idea whatsoever.

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I know people find it hard to believe,[br]but what do you do after disaster?

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You bury your child and then[br]you go back to your life.

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And I don't remember exactly how long it

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was after my daughter died that I showed[br]up at Albany medical center or number nine

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to perform my 1st 2nd[br]trimester DNA abortion.

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I wasn't thinking of it[br]as anything special.

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This was routine to me,

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but I reached in, literally pulled[br]out an arm or leg and got sick.

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Earlier on, I described stacking up[br]body parts on the side of the table.

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It's not to gross people[br]out using a simple term.

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When you do an abortion,[br]you need to keep inventory.

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You have to make sure you get two[br]arms and two legs and all the pieces.

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If you don't, Your patient's going[br]to come back infected, bleeding, or dead.

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So I soldiered on and[br]finished that abortion.

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And I know it sounds like I said hard[br]for people to believe,

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but I'm telling you,[br]straight up my experience

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after over 1200 abortions,[br]first and second trimester up to 24 weeks

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and all the rest of it,[br]and being very dedicated to it.

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For the first time in my life,[br]I really looked I really looked

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at that pile of body parts on the side[br]of the table and I didn't see her

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wonderful right to choose and I[br]didn't see all the money I just made.

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All I could see was[br]somebody's son or daughter.

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And I stopped doing late term abortions

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after that and several months later,[br]stopped doing all abortions.

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Thank you.