Reporter Jo Mannies from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described a trial where abortionist Dr. Crist gave testimony about how he performed abortions.
She wrote:
“In testimony Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court, [abortionist] Crist said that it is not uncommon for second-trimester fetuses to leave the womb feet-first, intact and with their hearts still beating. He sometimes crushes their skulls to get the fetuses out. Other times, he dismembers them.”
Jo Mannies, “Abortion Doctor Gives Graphic testimony Describing Abortion Procedure,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 25, 2000
20 weeks. Many of the babies Crist aborts are this age.Share on Facebook
From an abortion provider’s speech at a conference on abortion:
“The procedure for mid-trimester termination was either a saline or prostaglandin injected [into the woman’s womb] to induce labor. The women actually delivered (or aborted) on the ward, either in bed or in a bedpan.
The nurse was left with all the difficult work – you could actually say all the “dirty” work…[T]he nurse had to weigh the fetus, the nurse had to place the fetus in a bag and transport it to a mortuary, the nurse had to clean bed, patients, and any remaining products.
The nurse had to answer patients’ questions, sometimes distressing, about the size, appearance, sex, disposal of the fetus, and whether it was still alive. The nurse had to deal with distressed patients and relatives…”
D. Krutli “Mid-trimester abortion service within a public hospital” Women and Surgery: Conference Proceedings (Melbourne: Healthsharing Women, 1990) 103
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S Chandrasekhar, who was in charge of implementing India’s family planning program, describes a first-trimester abortion as it was done in India:
“Abortion by suction or aspiration was perfected in the Soviet Union. Today this method has come into vogue in many parts of the world besides the communist countries.…
A sterile hollow metal tube (with a little window -like aperture on the side near its tip) is inserted through the cervix to reach the top of the uterine cavity. This hollow aspirator is then connected by transparent plastic tubing to a suction bottle.
The suction pump…is then started, reaching between 1/2 and At/m of negative pressure. While gently sweeping the aspirator around the uterus, the surgeon can tell when he has made contact with the embryo by observing the bits of foetal matter that appear in the transparent tubing.
The aspirator is worked over the area in the uterus where the embryo is attached until all the tissue has been sucked into the tubing. The operation lasts no more than three or four minutes with only a slight loss of blood…
The present abortion methods are so safe and simple that they are no more hazardous than a tooth extraction.”
S Chandrasekhar India’s Abortion Experience 1972 – 1992 (Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 1994) 38 – 39
Below are the results of a suction abortion at 8 weeks.
Two abortionists describing selective abortions done on multiple pregnancies:
“Using ultra-sound to locate each fetus, the doctors would insert a needle into the chest cavity of the most accessible fetus and place the needle tip directly into the heart of the baby. Potassium chloride was then injected into the heart and the heart was viewed on the ultrasound screen until it stopped beating.
Even at 9 weeks, 3 of the 12 fetuses selected for elimination presented problems. The heart continued to beat and the procedure had to be repeated.”
“Selective Abortion, AKA Pregnancy Reduction.” New England Journal of Medicine, April 21, 1988
One way of doing abortions is by induction, or inducing labor. These are induced labor abortions. The baby is usually first injected with poison, such as digoxin or potassium chloride, killing him or her. Labor is induced, usually with prostaglandins or cytotec. The woman goes through labor and “gives birth” to her dead child. All third trimester and many late second trimester abortions are done this way. Induced labor abortions are very painful to the mother.
Induced labor abortions are often done when the mother is aborting due to fetal anomaly (a disability or illness in the baby) because she wants to hold, photograph, or see the baby afterwards .
In their book, abortion doulas Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell, who have seen many abortions, describe abortion by induction:
“Some clients are under the impression that labor inductions would be more “natural” or easier or safer than the surgical abortion. Many think of their own birth experiences with other children, and they feel more comfortable doing that than they do dealing with the drama of having a surgical abortion. It’s a rude awakening when they realize that a labor induction is not very “natural” at all.
Clients are given medications to start labor and IV’s with fluids. They are strapped to monitors – they can’t move, they can’t eat, and their contractions are often so bad that they choose an epidural.
According to physician David Grimes, the uterus is not evolved to deliver a pregnancy during the second trimester. Miscarriages usually happen in the first trimester, and babies are delivered in the third, at the end of the pregnancy.
Labor inductions in the second trimester can be as long and arduous as any full-term birth but with more medications. In other words – not a natural birth process.”
Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (New York: Feminist Press, 2016) 115
This is what babies look like when they are killed by induced labor abortions:
Vincent J Genovese wrote a book about an illegal abortionist who performed over 100,000 abortions before Roe V Wade. The author praises the abortionist throughout the book, and lifts him up as a champion for women. In this passage, Genovese describes how the abortionist killed a very young unborn baby:
“With the dilation complete, the next step… was to extract the fetus. At this point, most doctors prefer to use a blunt instrument called a curette to accomplish this. Dr. Spencer preferred using his index finger. His hands were small and extremely tuned to the touch of the uterus…
He simply inserted his finger and moved it deftly against the uterine wall, causing both fetus and placenta to break free. When he felt this happen he would call for small pair of forceps and gently remove the 7-week-old embryo.
It was discarded without any sense of loss into a basin which already held two others from this morning’s work. He went back to make sure all the products of conception were removed and that the uterus had begun to contract in order that there be no bleeding.”
Vincent J Genovese The Angel of Ashland: Practicing Compassionand Tempting Fate (Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2000) 14 – 15
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Well-known late term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern conducted a study:
“Examination of the tissue postoperatively included weighing the fetus and placenta separately and careful measurement of fetal parts…..
The final estimate of gestational age ranged from 13 to 26 menstrual weeks; 40% of the pregnancies were from 13 to 15 weeks of gestation, 26.8% from 16 to 18 weeks, 15.8% from 19 to 20 weeks, 10.8% from 21 to 22 weeks, 6.4% from 23 to 24 weeks, and 0.2% from 25 to 26 weeks….
Serious underestimation of the length of gestation occurred in two patients with postoperative estimates of gestational age at 25 and 26 weeks, respectively. Fetal weights ranged from 11 to 730 gm, fetal foot lengths ranged from 9 to 51 mm, and biparietal diameters ranged from 18 to 62 mm.”
An article in Family Planning Perspectives describes D & E abortion:
“[A] physician performing a D&E must deal with the second trimester foetus in an intimate, physical way…ossified parts, such as the skull, must be crushed. The bone fragments must be extracted carefully to avoid tearing the cervix. Reconstruction of the fetal sections after removal from the uterus is necessary to ensure completeness of the abortion procedure”.
“Emotional Impact of D&E vs. Instillation,” Family Planning Perspectives, Nov./Dec., 1977.
