ARLINGTON, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — An undercover video taken by the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) caught Virginia abortionist Jessica “Lou” Rubino making candid remarks about her work, including mocking the idea that her victims were living humans with inherent rights.
As announced by PAAU and detailed first by Live Action, the video was taken at the pro-abortion group Repro Rising’s 2025 gala in Arlington, Virginia, where the videographer speaks with Rubino (who operates Meadow Reproductive Health) for roughly 11 minutes.
Rubino explains that her clinic also offers “gender-affirming care” (which she defines as part of “family medicine,” but that “most of my time” is spent on abortions. She says she chose her specialization because committing abortions is “easy” and “technically not really that challenging,” but once done she has “made someone’s day” or even saved their life (which is untrue).
She also touted the certainty of results in abortion as opposed to the difficulties of diagnosing and treating actual ailments: “I’m gonna be able to make you not pregnant if you want,” which means that “when people come to see me they end up feeling really good” (a claim belied by countless cases of abortion regret).
The most chilling portion of the exchange came when Rubino detailed the corpses left behind: “Most of our patients are going to be under 12 weeks because that’s the majority of people who have abortions, they’re gonna be really, really early. That’s when it’s really quite small in the sac,” she said.” Some patients will ask me afterwards if they can view what I’ve removed. If it’s like nine weeks, it’s just like, it’s still a sac, actually at that point.” But “once you get to like 10-12 weeks, it’s like see-through because it doesn’t have like — bone hasn’t finished forming, but you can start to make out little hands and little feet,” she acknowledged.
She claimed that, upon seeing their dead fetus, her patients “almost always” go “oh, that’s it?”
“When they see that fetus, they’re like, ‘Oh!’ because they’re expecting a baby because that’s what people have told them for all their lives, right?” she went on. “But when they see like, ‘Oh no, that really does look like something that’s not done forming … and I was trying to put its rights above mine!’”
Outward appearance of early developmental stages aside, it is a settled biological fact that the life of an individual human being, genetically complete and distinct from his or her parents, begins at fertilization and is present through the entirety of pregnancy.
Rubino previously moved from Texas, where she lamented having to contend with regulations like a mandatory 24-hour abortion waiting period, whereas Virginia allows her to commit abortions “in an hour, like same day.”
The PAAU video is reminiscent of work first done by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). Starting in 2015, CMP began releasing a series of secretly recorded conversations with officials from Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation that set off a firestorm of controversy and a string of revelations about the abortion industry breaking multiple federal laws against profiting off human tissue, altering abortion procedures for the sake of procuring better tissue samples, and potentially even committing partial-birth abortions or infanticide, as well as video examples of abortion workers displaying callousness toward the humanity of the children their work killed.
Neither the Obama nor the first Trump administrations took action against the implicated abortion organizations. The new Trump Department of Justice likely cannot prosecute Planned Parenthood for its pre-2015 breaking of federal laws against profiting from the sale of human organs or fetal tissue, as most federal crimes have a five-year statute of limitations. But in the years since the original videos, evidence has continued to emerge pointing to ongoing relationships between the abortion giant and tissue researchers, raising the possibility that a new federal investigation might uncover crimes recent enough to pursue.