“Abortion in these cases were procured by injecting saline into the uterus causing causing labor and subsequent expulsion of the fetus twelve to twenty-four hours later. Nurses working with patients having this type of abortion found it most disturbing to ‘hold a well-formed aborted fetus with movement and with its eyes ‘still alive.’…Holding a fetus, feeling it move, hearing it try to ‘cry’, (something that happens only with older fetuses, those of around twenty weeks gestation or more) smelling its death, and the like, are not trivial experiences; nor are they pleasant ones.”
Megan-Jane Johnstone. Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective (Sydney, N.S.W. Harcourt Saunders) 1999 p 286
Abortions this late are seldom done by saline injection anymore, but usually by poison injected into the amniotic fluid, which kills the baby over the course of 24 to 48 hours. Then the baby is extracted piecemeal with forceps. Live birth is not a possibility in this method.
Share on Facebook