When commenting about the uproar surrounding the partial-birth abortion ban, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists put out a statement that said `
“it could be considered more respectful to the foetus than established methods of abortion such as vacuum aspiration . . . in which the foetus is removed in fragments’
“Abortion: New and Disturbing Questions.” The Daily Mail. July 17, 1996. 11.
Here is a diagram of a vacuum aspiration, or suction abortion.
