Category: Abortion Providers Speak

THE COURT. You also spell out that if you are doing an intact D&E or D&X or partial-birth abortion, whichever term is used, that that entailed a partial delivery, and then the procedure you described of inserting the scissors in the base of the skull and using a suction devise to remove the brain.

THE WITNESS. Yes, I do.

Dr. Amos Grunebaum, abortionist, in sworn testimony, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 30, 2004

A D&X or partial-birth abortion was performed by delivering an unborn baby almost completely and then puncturing the skull and draining the brain while only the baby’s head was still within the mother’s body.

You can read one former abortion clinic worker’s description of what she witnessed when she assisted with a partial-birth abortion.

Today, most abortions in the second trimester are done by D&E. This is also a brutal procedure that results in the dismemberment of the aborted baby. Read a former abortionist’s description or see pictures of a D&E in progress (warning: graphic) Or see a video here.

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Pro-choice author Magda Denes, PhD, interviewed abortion doctors and clinic workers for her book “In Necessity and Sorrow, Life and Death inside an Abortion Hospital” One doctor she quoted said the following:

“You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity of the fetal heart is not important – that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then in the next room you assure another woman on whom you just did a saline abortion, that it’s good that the heart is already irregular… She has nothing to worry about, she is not going to have a live baby… At the beginning we were doing abortions on smaller fetuses… And the kicking and heartbeat did not manifest itself as much. I think if I had started with 24 weekers right off the bat, I would’ve had a much greater conflict in my own mind if this was the same as murder or not. But since we started off slowly with 15 – 16 weekers, the fetus just never got consideration. Then gradually, the whole range of cases started to become larger. All of a sudden, one noticed that at the time of the saline infusion, there was a lot of activity in the uterus. It wasn’t fluid currents. It was obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the salt solution and kicking violently through the death trauma. You can either face it, or turn around and say it’s uterine contractions. That, however, would be repressing, since as a doctor you obviously know that it is not. Now whether you admit this to the patient is another matter. Her distress by unwanted pregnancy is to be the primary consideration, ahead of any possible consideration for the fetus. We just have to face it. Somebody has to do it. Unfortunately, we are the executioners in this instance.”

Dr. Magda Denes, “Performing Abortions” Commentary, October 1979, 35, 37 Quoted in  Melanie Green “Children… Things We Throw Away?” Last Days Ministries 1983

 

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From the partial birth abortion ban trials, one conversation that took place under oath.

THE WITNESS: “The instruments are thick enough and heavy enough that you can actually grasp and crush with those instruments as if you were picking up salad…”

THE COURT: “Except here you are crushing the head of a baby.”

THE WITNESS: “Correct.”

Testimony of abortionist Dr Timothy Johnson, National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, March 31, 2004.

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A clinic worker speaks:

“I have also been in the theatre when the abortions are performed. An early abortion, i.e. less than 11 weeks, can be completed in five minutes if the patient is under a general anaesthetic. Later abortions take up to half an hour, and I won’t pretend, it’s pretty difficult to watch. I must admit, I almost passed out watching one of the later abortions, but I’m glad I saw it. I’d feel like a hypocrite if I carried on working and didn’t know what went on in the operating theatre. I’m in a difficult position because I do have sympathy for the foetuses that are aborted at such late stages, but, when you talk to the women in that position, you soon realise that they’re not terminating their pregnancies for frivolous reasons.”

Sabrina “Working in an abortion clinic” TheSite.org Community: Real Life

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Dr. William Rashbaum, now deceased, was profiled in a 2003 article. At the time the article was written, he had  performed over 21,000 late-term abortions. The article says of Raushbaum:

TRAINED IN an era when doctors were considered gods, Rashbaum is gruff, confrontational, and downright abrasive. He flaunts medical conventions at will, rankling nurses and orderlies, if it serves his needs. When the orderlies take too long preparing his operating room between procedures, he goes in and embarrasses them into efficiency by helping to clean up. He boasts, “They turn my room over much faster than any other room.” First- and second-year OB/GYN residents dread his cases. “It was always a fight about who had to do them,” says a former intern.

Cases such as his are certainly the most technically difficult of all abortions. As pregnancy moves closer to 24 weeks (the upper legal limit in most states, with rare exceptions made to preserve a woman’s life or health), the risk to the patient increases, even with the preferred method for second-trimester abortions — dilation and evacuation, or D&E for short. During the procedure, in which both vacuum and surgical instruments are used, the fetus is either removed in pieces or delivered more or less intact. In the operating room, Rashbaum readily yells at the top of his lungs at residents working with forceps inside a woman’s uterus, where he can’t see what they’re doing, to make sure they are as nervous as he is. “It’s not the best way to teach,” he admits. “Calm, cool, collected is better, but a tough screaming is not ineffective.”

The article also quotes Raushbaum as saying:

“As long as I can make a contribution, I enjoy what I do.”

The article also says:

He has trained close to 100 doctors to do D&Es, some of whom have gone on to train others

REBECCA PALEY “Cruel to be kind: In the twilight of his career, a late-term-abortion doctor tells all” The Boston Phoenix  Dec 2003

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A late-term abortionist describes what he does:

“We would attack the lower part of the lower extremity first, remove, you know, possibly a foot, then the lower leg at the knee and then finally we get to the hip.”

Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S), by Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist

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