“After an abortion, the doctor must inspect these remains to make sure that all the fetal parts and placenta have been removed. Any tissue left inside the uterus can start an infection. Dr. Bours squeezed the contents of the sock into a shallow dish and poked around with his finger. “You can see a teeny tiny hand,” he said.”
Abortion Provider Dr. Bours
Dudley Clendinen, “The Abortion Conflict: What it Does to One Doctor” New York Times Magazine Aug 11 1985 p 26
12-week-old unborn baby – this is still the first trimester
“During the procedure, Doris would offer her hand for the patient to squeeze, or if the abortion were particularly painful, a notepad for the patient to bite…Doris knew what [the abortionist] was doing at the end of the examination table as he pored over the legs and ribs and hands, but she chose not to look. It wasn’t that Doris ignored the truth, but rather that her commitment was to the woman, not the fetus…”
Sue Hertz Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion’s Front Line (New York: Prentice Hill Press, 1991) p 109
“…[the doctor] removed from the glass jar cheesecloth sack which caught the fetal parts, dumping the parts into a basin at the end of the table, between [the patient’s] feet. Two legs, two arms, two fists, a skull, a backbone, a placenta. “We’ve got it” he announced.”
.Sue Hertz Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion’s Front Line (New York: Prentice Hill Press, 1991) 114
Sometimes abortion clinics give information to women that is blatantly false in order to try to convince them to have abortions. Here is a drawing put out by the National Abortion Federation to be distributed in clinics. The National Abortion Federation is an organization of abortion providers, these are people who know the facts of fetal development intimately because they see the babies every time they perform abortions. They know the correct information. There simply lying. Note – the drawing is enlarged here.
Here is what an unborn baby really looks like at 6 weeks:
And here is what a baby looks like at nine weeks in the womb. Note the presence of hands, legs, fingers and toes.
Finally, here is a picture of an unborn baby at 12 weeks.
unborn baby at 12 weeks
The drawings provided by the National Abortion Federation are completely inaccurate. It becomes obvious why abortion clinics fight so hard against informed consent laws. Planned Parenthood and other groups fight against laws that require women to view fetal development information before abortion – and they also fight against laws that require her just to be asked if she wants to view this material, laws that don’t say she has to look at it, but only that she’s given the opportunity to. That is very telling.
Also interesting is the fact that pro-choice activists attack crisis pregnancy centers (centers that help women with alternatives to abortion) and claim that they are deceitful. These crisis pregnancy centers give accurate information about the unborn baby and alternatives to abortion, information which is not given out by many clinics. Because these clinics compete with abortion clinics and lower the abortion rate, most abortion clinics try to hinder them and even drive them out of business if possible.
The Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office said the following about a bill attacking these centers:
“Women deserve truthful, accurate information about their reproductive health care choices. We applaud Congresswoman Maloney for taking steps to address a deceptive practice that undermines women’s constitutional rights.”
Press Release: Seeking a Crackdown on Deceit by Radical Anti-Choice Centers: 3-30-2006
A spokesperson for an abortion clinic met with pro-choice leaders to discuss a legislative plan to defend legal abortion. The group was discussing a plan to defend abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy, up until birth:
“These people are political activists, Fran thought. Their work was critical to protecting abortion rights, but how many of them knew the reality of abortion, had seen the reality of what it destroyed? Fran felt like standing up and saying to those arguing for unrestricted abortions,
“You haven’t seen the little feet. They look just like the little feet pushpins that the antis wear.” As a provider at Repro once said, if half the pro-choice people saw the fetal remains of a 2nd trimester abortion, they would jump the fence into the antis’ arms.”
19 week-old unborn baby – legal to abort in every US state
Sue Hertz Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion’s Front Line (New York: Prentice Hill Press, 1991) 122
“But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.”
Clinic Worker Sallie Tisdale
9 to 10 week-old unborn baby
Tisdale “We Do Abortions Here” Harpers Magazine October 1987
“I am walking out the back door, and I see a plastic jar of tissue and blood waiting to be sent to the path lab, and in the plastic jar a tiny perfect white hand. . . “
From the brief of Dr. LeRoy Cahart Et. Al. In Steinberg V. Carhart:
After a portion of the fetus has been removed, other parts of the fetus remaining in the uterus will sometimes be alive. J.A. 258 (Stubblefield) The district court found out that sometimes the embryo or fetus is brought into the vagina while it is still living and intact. S.A. 9, 28. Physicians know that suctioning a pre-viable fetus or embryo out of the woman’s uterus will inevitably kill it.
“It is advisable to use the biggest forceps that you can get through the cervix to morcellate the fetus…[the need to] “visually check the parts as they are retrieved” “is necessary to ensure complete evacuation but is part of the reason that second trimester abortion is not popular among surgeons. All those here who do second trimester abortions will agree that the most difficult ones are those between 14 and 16 weeks. In those, there is a tendency for the uterus to form an ‘hourglass’ and the head and part of the trunk to be trapped in the upper part and difficult to retrieve. The passage of large, recognizable fetal parts by the woman some hours or days later is extremely distressing for the woman and her family.”
Abortionist Dr. Cope
.Celeste McGovern “Fourteen Week Olds Cost 250- Cash” The Report. February 28, 2000
