They said it.
Susan Robinson, abortionist, at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte:
“The fetus is a tough little object, and taking it apart, I mean, taking it apart on day one is very difficult.”
She is referring to a D&E abortion, where the baby is dismembered with forceps (see diagram below)
Kristi Burton Brown “10 horrifying things Planned Parenthood says about abortion” Live Action News May 25, 2017
Share on FacebookAnn Schutt-Aine, director of abortion services at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, says:
“If I’m doing a procedure, and I’m seeing that I’m in fear that it’s about to come to the umbilicus (navel), I might ask for a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix, and pull off a leg or two.”
Kristi Burton Brown “10 horrifying things Planned Parenthood says about abortion” Live Action News May 25, 2017
Amna Dermish late-term abortionist at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, describes how she does an abortion:
“I’ll remove the extremities first – the lower extremities – and then go for the spine and sort of break it down that way… I always try to aim for a spine to bring it down.”
Kristi Burton Brown “10 horrifying things Planned Parenthood says about abortion” Live Action News May 25, 2017
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An article in The Irish Times tells how pro-choice reporters were made uncomfortable by testimony from an abortionist at the Kermit Gosnell trial. Gosnell was convicted of murder for killing babies born alive after abortions as well as a woman who died at his clinic.
The article is about pro-choice reporters’ reaction to the testimony of abortionist Dr Karen Feisullin:
“The jury and many in the courtroom shifted uncomfortably as they heard about “tools going up into the uterus and basically pulling parts out . . . an arm or a leg or some portion of that”.
And those were the easy, early abortions. For later procedures, Dr Feisullin explained the foetus was so well-formed that it couldn’t be ripped apart in the uterus. It was normally removed – through the birth canal – completely intact. But, as Feisullin explained, a baby born at 23 weeks has a 40-50 per cent chance of surviving. To avoid a live baby coming out during an abortion, the doctor demonstrated how, before the abortion, a poison – potassium chloride – was injected through the woman’s stomach directly into the baby’s heart. This would stop the heartbeat, allowing the foetus to be pulled out intact.
Dr Feisullin was asked what would happen if she missed the heart and the baby was born alive.
She explained that the live baby would be covered with a blanket and given “comfort care”.
You could see the genuine puzzlement of people in the court about what “comfort care” was until Dr Feisullin cleared up any confusion.
“You . . . really just keep it warm, you know. It will eventually pass,” she said.
Steve Volk, a Philadelphia-based journalist for an alternative newspaper who described himself as comfortably pro-choice before the trial, said that, as Dr Feisullin spoke, his fellow reporters all checked if they had heard correctly.”
Ann McElhinney, Phelim McAleer “Ann McElhinney: Abortion campaigners should be careful about what they wish for” The Irish Times Nov 10, 2015
A British student nurse named Amy Quinn describes a rotation at a hospital that did abortions:
“While a third-year student nurse at a London teaching hospital, I was sent to work on a gynae ward. Entering the sluice on my first shift I was surprised, not to say horrified, to see a dead foetus of about 14 or 15 weeks’ gestation in a plastic bowl, and this set off the tone of my 13 weeks on the ward. The staff were hearty but callow; whether they were attracted to the job because of these traits or they resulted from it, I just don’t know. It is unnecessary to expound on the cruelty of the juxtaposition of girls having “terminations” and those who have lost wanted babies or who are dying from diseases to their reproductive organs, which may have been useless to them, but it never ceased to be distasteful. Likewise, it was an unhappy experience to meet friendly, jolly girls of my own age, who put finishing a secretarial course or not ruining their social life above the lives of their expected children.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 268-269
An abortion doula, who tries to make a woman feel better as she is aborting her child, says she tries to prevent aborting women from seeing the blood but:
“…I can’t take away the sound. Most first-trimester abortions are vacuum aspiration. The machine sounds like a sucking through a straw when you’re at the bottom of the glass. The vacuuming is sometimes painful, but I think patients find the sound harder to bear. Lite FM stations play in the background. Most first-trimester abortions take fewer than four songs. Sitting in bars with my friends on summer nights, I hear the same songs and wonder after the women.”
Alex Ronan “My Year As an Abortion Doula” The Cut SEPTEMBER 14, 2014
Share on FacebookAbortion clinic worker Ida Dupont:
“The second trimester abortions were hard for me to deal with because they are admittedly a bit gory. …I remember witnessing one of these procedures and being disturbed at the sight of parts of a fetus being removed.”
MINDY BOND & RAPHIE FRANK “Ida Dupont, Professor of Criminal Justice, Women’s Advocate” Gothamist December 1, 2004
Dupont claimed that second trimester abortions are usually done because of a health problem in the mother or baby, but this has been debunked.
Below: From a 16 week abortion:
An abortionist admires the “beauty” of the placenta of a baby he just aborted:
Nothing could be seen of the embryo, but the doctor extracted a tiny, white, frond-like substance which floated in the water in a small plastic container no larger than a mustard pot. This was the placenta. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” said Dr. Stephens, holding it up to the light.”
Mary Kenny Abortion: The Whole Story (London: Quartet Books, 1986) 173
In this case, the baby was so young that the suction machine reduced her to unrecognizable shreds.
Share on FacebookAbortionist Willie Parker describes seeing the body parts of the babies he aborts. He describes how he commits a first trimester abortion:
… I insert a straw, called a cannula… and attach that to a suction tube which leads to a canister by my feet. I flip a switch on the canister body, which turns on the vacuum, and, with a circular motion, I sweep the walls of the uterus with the tube. Within the space of a couple of minutes, the products of conception are sucked through the tube and into the canister.
I place the small mass of tissue and blood into a fine mesh strainer that looks like something you’d find in an industrial kitchen, and I run the whole thing for a minute under running water. Then I transfer the contents of the strainer into a square Plexiglas dish, which I place on top of a lightbox. And there, I inspect what has just come out of the woman’s body: what I’m looking for is the fetal sac, which, at a later gestational age, becomes the placenta, and, after nine weeks, every one of the fetal parts – head, body, limbs – like a puzzle that has to be put back together…
I make sure I find every part, and I place them together, re-creating the fetus in the pan. I have done this so many times that it is has become routine: no matter what these parts may look like, this is organic matter that does not add up to anything that can live on its own. This phase of the process is crucial as any other.
Abortionist Willie Parker claims to be a devout Christian.
Willie Parker Life’s Work: from the Trenches, A Moral Argument for Choice (New York: 37INK, Atria, 2017) 95 – 96
Share on FacebookAbortionist Richard Hausknecht on second trimester abortions:
“Any procedure at this stage is pretty gruesome. When I did second-trimester abortions, I did them late in the day, and when I’d get home, my wife would say, ‘You did one today, didn’t you?’ It would be all over my face.”
DEBORAH SONTAG “Doctors Say It’s Just One Way” New York Times MARCH 21, 1997
A D&E is the most common method of abortion in the 2nd trimester. See diagram below:
Read an abortionists’ in-depth description of this type of abortion
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