“… As you get into the second trimester, if we remove the pregnancy using forceps, and if a heartbeat is the measure of being alive, that happens all the time.”
Dr. Dennis Christensen, Madison Abortion Clinic, Wisconsin. From The New York Times; May 15, 1998; page A14
Note: The fetal heart starts beating at 18 –21 days after conception
Brief of Dr. Carhart et Al. in Stenberg vs Carhart:
After approximately 16 weeks gestation, the fetal head cannot typically be safely drawn through the woman’s cervix unless it is compressed. J.A. 296 (Stubblefield) …the physician either compresses the skull with forceps before pulling it into the vagina or removes the cranial contents.”
The affidavit of “Employee B,” a certified surgical technician employed at Midtown Hospital for a month and a half before resigning, describes Midtown’s patient care:
On April 18, 1998, at approximately 7:00 a.m., I witnessed a patient deliver an intact fetus in the toilet of a bathroom in the waiting room area. After expelling the baby and the afterbirth, the patient walked to the operating room because there were no wheelchairs. I opened the fetal sac so that the fetus could be weighed. The weight was approximately 3029 grams [over 6 pounds, 10 ounces]. It was a very big fetus. My impression is that at Midtown Hospital a procedure will be done at any gestational age as long as the patient has the money.
22 to 24 weeks sonogram, legal to abort in every state
“Complete Disregard” National Review November 23, 1998 p40
Abortionist Dr. Warren Hern, in his textbook on how to do abortions, describes the procedures a little more plainly. Here he describes a first trimester abortion. During the procedure:
“The physician will usually first notice a quantity of amniotic fluid, followed by placenta and fetal parts, which may be more or less identifiable.”
Warren Hern, M.D. Abortion Practice J.B. Lippenott Company 1984 p 114
Later he says:
“The procedure changes significantly at 21 weeks because fetal tissues become much more cohesive and difficult to dismember.”
p 154
And
“A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus.”
20 to 22 weeks
p 154
He also instructs:
“The aggregate fetal tissue is weighted, then the following fetal parts are measured, foot length, knee to heel length, and biparietal diameter”
Abortionist Dr. Crist discusses an abortion he performs on a young woman. This is what he says to her:
“Okay, Robin,” [abortionist] Crist says after administering anesthesia. “You’re going to feel some cramping sensations as I’m dilating your cervix.”
The paper states,
“He does this using a series of metal rods so he can get to the uterus, where the fetus is. The fetus is about6 inches long and weighs about four ounces. It has arms and legs and fingers and toes.”
Later in the article:
“Here’s an arm,” he says, beginning an inventory that he does after every procedure to make sure all of the fetus has been removed.
“This is the head. Here is part of the spine . . .
It’s all there. On to the next patient.”
A Chain of Tears: A Doctor and Abortion” St Petersburg Times June 3, 1990
One book documents two conversations between abortion clinic staff and reluctant abortion patients. Here is one:
“Peggy’s (the patient’s) mind is off on a different track. “Is it true that at six weeks it has a heartbeat?” Carye (the counselor) says nobody is sure exactly when the heart begins beating, and tries to deflect that concern. “This pregnancy and you are the same thing,” she adds, explaining to Peggy that prior to twenty-four weeks the fetus cannot survive outside her womb.”
In this second passage, a young woman in her fourteenth week of pregnancy named Tiffany does not want to abort.
This is the clinic counselor speaking:
“I’m not here to change your mind. I’m not here to force your opinion. But I’m sitting here seeing this beautiful young woman with her whole life ahead of her, and you have so many other things you can do right now. Why don’t you go ahead with your dreams and have kids later?” Tiffany had no answer so Anneke continued, “We’re always here for you.”….Before ending the session Anneke left Tiffany with some figures that she recently had learned from Carye: One in ten high school girls who become pregnant finish high school, and one in ten thousand girls who have babies during high school finish college. And a third statistic: Over 80 percent of the men in this country don’t pay their child support. “The statistics are stacked against you,” Anneke said.”
Tiffany did, reluctantly, agree to an abortion. Here is a picture of a 14 week old unborn baby, similar to the one Tiffany aborted.
14 weeks
Peter Korn. Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press) 1996 p 25
NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-abortion group, opposes crisis pregnancy centers, which are centers that help pregnant women. Their fact sheet says the following:
“Unfortunately, reports indicate that CPCs frequently misinform, mislead, and coerce women with unintended or crisis pregnancies. Staff and volunteers at CPCs often use anti‐abortion propaganda to dissuade women from exercising their right to choose….Women are entitled to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased medical information with which they can make their own decisions.”
THE TRUTH ABOUT CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS, NARAL PRO‐CHOICE AMERICA, January 6, 2006
“Many women could not afford to have babies, so we would use examples- like the price of babies’ shoes, the price of clothing, how much it cost to raise a baby. If they weren’t finished with their education, the hindrance it would have on their education, how would they find a baby sitter, who was going to take care of that baby for them? We would find their weakness and work on them…All they were told about the procedure itself was that they would experience slight cramping similar to menstrual cramps, and that was it. They were not told about the development of the baby. They were not told about the pain the baby would be experiencing or the physical effects or the emotional effects it would have on them. They had no idea who was going to be there to help them when they fell apart afterward…Some of the women were a little apprehensive about it. We were told that in explaining to them we could never use the word “babies.” It was always tissues, tissues of cells, or clusters of cells or products of conception.”
“The women were never given any type of alternatives to the abortion. It was just automatically assumed that they knew what they wanted. They were never told about adoption agencies. They were never told about people out there who were willing to help them–to give them homes to live in, to provide them with care and even financial support. The euphemisms that are used — clusters of cells, products of conception, or just plain tissue — are all lies.”
Personal Testimony “Meet the Abortion Providers” Convention
in 2005, in Georgia, a law was proposed that would’ve allowed women coming in for abortions to see information about their unborn babies. The woman would not be forced to look at this information, but she would have the option to if she chose to. Planned Parenthood vehemently oppose the law. According to Kay Scott, who is executive director of Planned Parenthood :
“Supporters of the Woman’s Right to Know bill say it would allow time for reflection, but this bill is really about deception. …women already receive full informed consent before having an abortion…..”
Kay Scott “ABORTION: 24-HOUR-WAIT SUPPORTERS TRY TO DECEIVE” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA), Jan 21, 2005 pA15
“The information provided [by abortion providers] is often unreliable or exaggerated. Consider this text from a “frequently asked questions” Web site – “Making Your Decision” – published by Early Options, a Brooklyn physician’s office:
“It might help you to know that if you are in the early stages of pregnancy, you are not yet carrying a fetus or baby. In fact, if it has been less than 7 weeks since your last period, your pregnancy consists of nothing visible to the eye except a tiny, empty sac in your uterus. By 8 to 9 weeks, your pregnancy is the size of a pea.”
seven week-old unborn baby
In the article that cited the above, abortionist William Harrison comments
“there is actually a very visible embryo in that sac as early as four weeks.”
Holly Auer “Rhetoric from Both Sides Muddles Decision Process” Buffalo News November 24, 2002
A law in Georgia was approved that said abortion clinics must provide materials on abortion risks, the development of the baby, and alternatives to abortion to women and allow them to view them if they chose. Then there was a waiting period is women were allowed to consider this information. NARAL Pro-Choice America, pro-abortion group, opposed this law:
“It’s a ruse to say that clinics do not already have informed consent,” said Becky Rafter, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Georgia. During public hearings on the bill, some abortion clinics provided documentation to legislators showing they already inform women of the medical risks of abortion.”
Carlos Campos “Abortion waiting period approved; Aim to let women change their minds, advocates ” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA), March 5, 2005 pA1
