They said it.
An abortionist describes how he aborts a baby
“I’ll pull and twist and everything will come out. And probably two or three times, I’ll have to pull and the head will get stuck against the cervix. So I’ll have to use my ring forceps and crush the skull.”
Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004.
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An abortionist describes how hard it is to remove the baby’s skull when doing an abortion.
“When one does a D&E, technically one of the challenges is to remove the fetal skull, partly because it is relatively large, partly because it is relatively calcified, and it is difficult to grasp on occasion.”
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.
In a second trimester D & E procedure, the baby is decapitated and dismembered. Generally, the head (with the skull) is the last to be removed. Read a doctor’s description of the D & E procedure here.
Share on FacebookAn abortionist describes what he tells the women who come in for an abortion:
“But does that mean that we don’t share with them, that this involves dismemberment or separation of parts of the fetus or taking the fetus apart? We do. And we use that term. We say we take the fetus apart. We say, it is coming out in pieces and we make sure that that’s clear with the patients. And they understand it.”
Dr. Cassing Hammond, abortionist, in sworn testimony in National Abortion Federation, et. al. v. Ashcroft, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, April 1, 2004
From testimony in a trial, an abortionist answers a question:
Q. Doctor, when you’re actually performing the removal of the fetus from the uterus, that process usually results in dismemberment of the fetus; is that correct?
A. Usually in my case. Yes, sir.
Dr. William Fitzhugh, abortionist, in sworn testimony in Carhart vs. Ashcroft, Lincoln, NE, March 30, 2004.
Dr. Warren Hern does 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions at his clinic in Boulder. This is from an interview:
Q. Does it bother you that a second trimester fetus so closely resembles a baby?
A: I really don’t think about it. I don’t have a problem with believing the fetus is a fertilized egg. Sure it becomes more physically developed but it lacks emotional development. It doesn’t have the mental capacity for self-awareness. It’s never been an ethical dilemma for me. For people for whom that is an ethical dilemma, this certainly wouldn’t be a field they’d want to go into. Many of our patients have ethical dilemmas about abortion. I don’t feel it’s my role as a physician to tell her she should not have an abortion because of her ethical feelings. …Facing the situation of abortion is a part of that passage through life for some women–how they resolve that is their decision. …it. My role is to provide a service and, to a limited degree, help women understand themselves when they make their decision. I’m not to tell them what’s right or wrong.
Discharging the Committee on the Judiciary from Further Consideration Of the President’s Veto of HR 1833, Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995
September 9, 1996 Capital Words, A Project of the Sunlight Foundation volume 142 , number 130
http://capitolwords.org/date/1996/09/19/H10608-2_discharging-the-committee-on-the-judiciary-from-fu/
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In her article in Harpers magazine, Tisdale talks about her work in an abortion clinic:
“A twenty-one-year-old woman, unemployed, uneducated, without family, in the fifth month of her fifth pregnancy. A forty-two-year-old mother of teenagers, shocked by her condition, refusing to tell her husband. A twenty-three-year-old mother of two having her seventh abortion, and many women in their thirties having their first. . . .Oh, the ignorance . . . .Some swear they have not had sex, many do not know what a uterus is, how sperm and egg meet, how sex makes babies. . . .They come so young, snapping gum, sockless and sneakered, and their shakily applied eyeliner smears when they cry. . . .I cannot imagine them as mothers.”
She talks about lying to women about their unborn babies:
“I am speaking in a matter-of-fact voice about ‘the tissue’ and ‘the contents’ when the woman suddenly catches my eye and asks, ‘How big is the baby now?’. . . .1 gauge, and sometimes lie a little, weaseling around its infantile features until its clinging power slackens.
But she knows the reality of abortion:
But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see an elfin thorax, attenuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside. . . .I have fetus dreams, we all do here: dreams of abortions one after the other; of buckets of blood splashed on the walls; trees full of crawling fetuses. . . .”
Quoted in Jason Deparle, “Beyond the Legal Right; Why Liberals and Feminists Don’t like to Talk about the Morality of Abortion,” Washington Monthly Apr. 1989,
See babies aborted at this age.
Read more about clinic workers lying to women or withholding information from them.
Share on FacebookDuring a trial to determine whether or not partial-birth abortion should be legal, one abortion provider discussed grasping and crushing an unborn baby’s skull. This is done in both the partial-birth abortion (now illegal) and the commonly used D&E abortion. Read more about the D&E abortion here.
THE COURT: “What did they utilize to crush the head?”
THE WITNESS: “An instrument, a large pair of forceps that have a round, serrated edge at the end of it, so that they were able to bring them together and crush the head between the ends of the instrument.”
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.
Share on FacebookIn this quote from a court case in New York, abortionist Dr. Timothy Johnson had been asked whether or not he told women seeking abortions at his clinic that their babies would have their skulls punctured and brains drained during the procedure. He said no. In the type of abortions that Johnson performed, he would suck out the brain after puncturing the skull, then crush the head and remove the baby.
THE WITNESS: I’m … not exactly sure what using terminology like sucking the brains out would —
THE COURT: That’s what happens, doesn’t it?
THE WITNESS: Well, in some situations that might happen. There are different ways that an after-coming head could be dealt with but that is one way of describing it.
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.
Click here to see pictures of 20 week old babies after they have been aborted
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I know that the fetus is alive during the process most of the time because I can see fetal heartbeat on the ultrasound.
Leroy Carhart, testifying under oath in 1997 about what he does to facilitate abortion, Asheville Tribune
The unborn baby’s heart starts beating at just 21 days after conception
Share on FacebookAn abortionist was asked under oath whether or not he told women considering abortions that their babies would be dismembered in the abortion procedure.
THE COURT: So you tell her [the woman] the arms and legs are pulled off. .. Do you tell her?
THE WITNESS: We tell her the baby, the fetus is dismembered as part of the procedure, yes.
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.
