An abortionist describes a D&C, an abortion procedure in which the lining of the uterus is scraped to remove the baby and placenta. Now most early abortions are done by the suction curettage method, but in most cases the uterus is still scraped to remove remaining tissue that the machine doesn’t suction out. So this quote is still relevant to the way abortions are performed today.
“I always used to tell medical students it was like being blindfolded and trying to scrape wet cotton balls out of a wet paper bag and getting all the balls without tearing the bag… The uterus was so soft, it was very easy to poke something through the uterus.”
Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: the Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe Versus Wade (Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon press, 1995) page 58
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