Dr. Warren Hern, abortionist, describes how to do a first trimester suction abortion in his book Abortion Practice:
“The principal motion of the suction handle while in the uterus is rotation. The physician will usually first notice a quantity of amniotic fluid followed by placenta and fetal parts which may be more or less identifiable. As this is happening the patient is advised that she will hear a loud sucking sound. Vital signs should be observed regularly, and a Doppler inaudible to the patient should be used at intervals to determine the presence or absence of fetal heart tones.”
Warren M. Hern. Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1990)
First trimester unborn baby. Suction abortions are done at this time.
A nurse in a Florida abortion clinic gave the following testimony:
“I saw a lot of babies born alive … Dr. X said that was a side effect of a medication. They always said to leave the baby alone, and they would stop breathing … Two hours was the longest I saw a baby live … One girl was 26-27 weeks …they put the babies in red biohazard bags when they were still moving … tied the bag up … put them in a biohazard box. The biohazard medical service would pick boxes up Monday and Thursday. Dr..X would insert the medication and send the women home. They were told to come back the next day.
There was one incident where the woman had the baby while she was waiting at the door for the clinic to open. She got there at 7 a.m. The clinic opened at 8 a.m. She said the baby was born alive. The baby was now dead, and she was holding the baby in a bag. She was bleeding.
I was in the room when Dr. X gave the digoxin to stop that baby’s heartbeat beforehand. [Digoxin is a medication inserted by needle through a mother’s abdomen into a baby’s heart to cause cardiac arrest.]
Well, he didn’t have an ultrasound machine that day. He inserted the needle blindly. He said he’d been doing it so many years, he knew the location. But he didn’t actually know if he hit the heart.
I know this nurse – Bridget. She was working there when the new doctor held a baby under water in a bucket when she told him the baby was alive. That baby was between 25-26 weeks. Bridget left two months ago because of that.
I left because I got tired of everything going on and the fact Dr. X would coach women into saying they were going to kill themselves if they didn’t abort. Then he said he had a legal right to do it past viability. He did them all the way to 40 weeks.”
Dr. Savita Ginde. Abortionist, on the bodies (corpses) of aborted babies:
But sometimes with the residents, I tell them to poke around, and sometimes embryology will come full circle. Find all the parts you know, see what you can see. Especially with the thirteen, fourteen, fifteen weekers, I think it’s pretty amazing. We find heart, we’ve see kidneys and adrenals, sometimes there’s thing I don’t know what that is but it’s a part… I don’t’ know if it’s lungs, if it’s brains, if it’s heart-
Marie Stafford, 50, has worked in the abortion field since 1989:
She has no children.
I was brought up a Roman Catholic to believe that life was sacred, but I have no qualms about abortion.
I feel strongly about the woman’s right to choose. …
[She came to her views partly because of friend who she says died of an illegal abortion]
16 weeks
However, there are times when the reality of it all hits you. When you are at the operation, particularly with the later terminations, it can be difficult. You might think: “Oh God, that’s a potential life.” But you learn to distinguish between the procedure itself and the need to support the woman’s right to choose….
I would have no qualms about having an abortion. …
You see a lot of trauma and tragedy. It’s awful when girls come to you when they have gone over the 24-week limit And sadly some GPs who are anti-abortion delay referring patients until it’s too late. .”…
Below is part of a transcript from an undercover video from THE CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS.
Speakers: -Savita Ginde, MD, Vice President and Medical Director, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (“Ginde”)
“J.R.” Johnstone, Clinical Research Coordinator, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
(“J.R.”) -Medical Assistant, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (“Jess”)
They are having this conversation in an abortion clinic, while poking at the dismembered remains of babies that have just been aborted.
Ginde: I know I’ve seen livers, I’ve seen stomachs, I’ve seen plenty neural tissue, usually we can see the whole brain.
9-10 weeks
….
Ginde: The legs. There’s an eyeball.
Buyer: Do you see an trunk or a body cavity?…
Jess: The posterior spine
Jess: So cute.
Ginde: (inaudible)
Buyer: That is cute. The kidney would be pink
Buyer: Was that crack, was that the skull?
Jess: Mhm.
Jess: I just want to see another leg, with a foot.
Savita: It’s a baby. …
Buyer: In the middle? Yea, liver is often similar in color to the vaginal lining. …This is placental sac. With the umbilical cord. If you want to get [Name] and let her know we have cases. J
.R.: Ok.
Ginde: (Inaudible)
Buyer: I see why they’re all concerned about Stericycle because they’re- it’s a surprising total volume there just for an eleven-six.
Ginde: Yea, let me see if I can get you some picks.
Buyer: This is the placenta. This part of
Ginde: This is part of the head.
Buyer: Oh wow. That- this is high quality.
9 weeka
Ginde: Yea. The nose?
Buyer: Yea, I see the mouth and everything.
Ginde: Oh look, here’s some intestines. Once we take it out of water it will be harder to identify.
Buyer: This is
Ginde: That’s the pelvis.
10 weeks
Buyer: This is pelvis with rib cage. …If we flip this over, maybe that’s stomach.
Ginde: This is the head, I think. This is the cervical spine, and this is the lumbar/thoracic spine.
Buyer: Got it. This is the beginnings of the- so maybe if I flip it over, we might see heart.
Ginde: Possibly, it looks like a spleen (Inaudible)
Buyer: Yea, nothing.
Ginde: There is also some more stuff in here so, it’s possible that it’s in this. So we can float this out here too. Did she say she was going to pick up (inaudible)
11 weeks
Buyer: This is the hand…we’ve almost got a complete cal over here, with the jaw…. the cervical spine area over here.
Ginde: Cool.
Buyer: Let me flip that over. You know what? Actually, because it’s the same white matter is coming out where the head was attached.
Ginde: Yea.
Buyer: Yea, so this is all neural matter.
Jess: Usually the organs are cleaner
Ginde: Oh, look here’s the heart. Is that right?
Buyer: Yea.
Ginde: Here’s the heart.
Jess: I’m trying to get in on it.
Ginde: My fingers will smoohs it if I try to pick it up. The heart is right there.
Buyer: You found the heart right there. I wonder if this is spleen. I’m sorry not spleen, pancreas. ..
Ginde: So you said they would want the cal?
Buyer: Yea, they want the cal because they want the brain. This is neural matter over here, because this is the lower part of the jaw and cervical spine. So this is spinal cord and
7 weeks
Ginde: So, that’s what you want?
Buyer: So, yea this is neural matter I believe this might be thymus and stuff…
Buyer: So, it looks to me like it’s got two lobes here, connected
Ginde: A lot of times ‘ll get a full torso, I’ll spine, kidneys, you could send the whole thing or pick that apart. …
Buyer: That’s a great heart specimen right there.
Ginde: The hearts I can say we usually get…
Buyer: These are intact kidneys. So, if somebody needed-
Ginde: Because if I looked at that, I’d say that’s good to go.
16 weeks
Buyer: Oh yea.
Jess: I’d say five stars….
Ginde: So, that would be it, because no one ever wants hands or legs, or anything like that.
Buyer: Sometimes.
Ginde: Really?
12 weeks
Buyer: Probably from larger gestations though because they want muscle or bone marrow like, from the long bones. And that would- this is very tiny. it would be difficult to extract bone marrow from this. You would want something a little bigger, it’s easier to get in there. Oh, we’ve got a whole- is this long bone Jess?
Jess: No, I think it’s shoulder.
….
Ginde: But sometimes with the residents, I tell them to poke around, and sometimes embryology will come full circle. Find all the parts you know, see what you can see. Especially with the thirteen, fourteen, fifteen weekers, I think it’s pretty amazing. We find heart, we’ve see kidneys and adrenals, sometimes there’s thing I don’t know what that is but it’s a part. I don’t’ know if it’s lungs, if it’s brains, if it’s heart
….
Jess: This is nine. B
Buyer: Oh, this is nine….
9 to 10 weeks
Buyer: That’s the whole bottom half of the cadaver, right there. You’ve got two legs and
Ginde: There’s two arms missing. Here’s the head, is this spinal column?
Ginde: Because, here’s her thorax.
Buyer: Must be. Yea.
Ginde: Interesting. It’s so big. Here’s her heart.
Buyer: Oh. Wow….that’s a very intact looking heart.
Ginde: Yea, it is. Jess: Do they want the spinal column?
Buyer: There are some researchers who have used neural tissue at seven weeks actually.
Ginde: I can get one at seven weeks. (Inaudible)
…..
Buyer: Yea, that looks better than what we saw earlier- that looks even more that’s not even all split up the way it was before. Its holding together a lot better.
Jess: So fast, it’s the twelve weeks and everyone wants to know, is it twins?
Buyer: You’ve been looking for twins all day.
12 weeks
Nurse: This might be, (inaudible)
Jess: As a trainee my blood pressure goes up anytime I can’t find it all right away. I’m like ahh, where is it?
Nurse: I found it in there.
Jess: Oh, the other one? Ok great.
Buyer: The other leg?
Jess: Yea the other leg. That’s why I said thank you, it was stressing me out. She said she saw it- oh there it is, there’s a little foot.
Jess: There’s another heart, completely perfect.
Buyer: Is that the cal?
Jess: Yes. The cervical
7 weeks
Buyer: Yea, and there’s brainstem in there
Jess: Yea, I don’t see the eyeballs
Ginde: Very interesting. Do they want brain? What do they do with it?
Buyer: Yea. Well brain, with brain they-
Ginde: Can they do anything with eyeballs?
Buyer: Oh yea. Although, eyeballs they generally want more developed than this. Eyeballs, you get the retinal pigment epithelium from the back of them and you culture those out, you know, into big cell cultures and you get, you get all kinds of real interesting stuff out of that. Is that the heart?
Ginde: It’s too soft right?
Buyer: Nah, we saw the heart earlier….
Buyer: I think this big thing right here is liver.
Ginde: Yea. It’s so soft though, but I guess maybe it doesn’t
8 weeks
Buyer: No, it’s definitely not like an older liver. It’s not doing all the same functions. I saw a kidney in here. And the cal, at first there was brain in here but
Ginde: It got blasted out.
Buyer: It got blasted out with water
Ginde: Well you know a lot of times especially with the 2nd tris, we won’t even put water because it’s so big you can just put your hand in there and pick it up, the parts.
Buyer: Right, just pick it up.
Ginde: And so, I don’t think it would be as…war-torn.
………….
Ginde: Here’s some stomach, a heart, kidney, and adrenal. I don’t know what else is in there. Jess: Head, arms, I don’t see any legs. Did you see the legs?
Ginde: I didn’t’ really look but
Buyer: Yea, there it goes. yup, you got all of them right there.
Jess: Another boy. Should I just put it
Ginde: Yea, just put it over here, I’ll wash it out. yea, so you guys staying the night or are you leaving?
From Abby Johnson, former medical director of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic:
I remember one day at Planned Parenthood we were standing around in the POC lab talking about how far along Warren Hern performed abortions (he performs them up until the date of birth in Colorado). I remember my boss laughing and saying, “He aborts them so far along they come out crying and looking for their mama.” Everyone in the room laughed as she made the motion of holding a baby up and spanking it’s bottom. I went to a friend of mine and asked her what she thought of aborting babies so late…I had always been uncomfortable with late term abortion. She said, “Well, it’s better to kill them before they are put in a dumpster.” And that was how I then began to justify late term abortion in my mind…”better than in a dumpster.”
Since leaving Planned Parenthood, that conversation has always haunted me…how easily I could justify something so heinous. I have since learned that if you have to justify something, then you probably shouldn’t believe in it.
Thank God for redemption and mercy.
Abby Johnson, shared on Facebook
8/8/2015
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“I have performed 21 abortions today, ending pregnancies in women ageing from 16 to 44, who have traveled from as far as Northern Ireland to regain control over their own bodies. I have carefully sieved through aspirate to identify the tiny translucent jelly-fish-like gestation sac at five weeks. I have painstakingly removed a foetus part by part at 23 weeks and watched the ultrasound image of the uterus shrink back to size. I have heard 21 stories of 21 difficult decisions, some agonizing, others more straightforward, but not one of them taken lightly. One woman made it as far as the operating table and changed her mind. I wiped away another woman’s silent tears as the anaesthetist counted her down from 10 as he put her under.
The staff in the clinic show boundless compassion.”
