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Abortionist describes “using suction device to remove the brain”

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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Doctor who has performed 50,000 abortions speaks

“I initially thought I would just provide abortions to women who really needed them. I realized soon that was a very naive way to think about this. All the women who showed up at the clinic, in some way, needed this. Who was I to be the arbiter?”

Dr. Robert Thompson, who estimated that he has performed about 50,000 abortions.

Sarah Kliff “Roe at 40: ‘It’s never been this frightening before.’ The Washington Post January 14, 2013

Aborted at eight weeks. Most abortions take place around this time or later

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2nd trimester abortions are difficult “emotionally and technically” says abortionist

From an abortion doctor:

“These [2^nd trimester abortion] procedures are much more difficult, both emotionally and technically, and are an unpleasant visual experience.”

Washington Times, 4/15/92

Voice: Life Issues Magazine volume 1 issue 4 May/June 1992

Here is a diagram of a D & E, a commonly used second trimester abortion method:

You can see the results of a D & E abortion at just sixteen weeks here.

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Pro-choice activists have hard time condemning sex selection abortions

Abortion rights groups are put in a difficult position by sex-selection abortions. They have said for years that a woman’s decision to abort is no one’s business but her own, and that no one should ever interfere with women’s choices to have abortions, but now, abortion is being used as weapon against baby girls, causing a huge gender imbalance in some countries. From an author who wrote a book on sex selection abortions in China, India and other countries:

“After decades of fighting for a woman’s right to choose the outcome of her own pregnancy, it is difficult to turn around and point out that women are abusing that right…”

From one pro-choice activist:

“We have had a challenge making sure that when we communicate we are able to preserve women’s right to abortion but at the same time say that sex selection on the basis of the gender of the future child is incorrect because it amounts to discrimination. How do you hold onto this discrimination tag and at the same time talk about safe abortion and access to it? It’s been a huge challenge for us – we are walking a tightrope.”

Mara Hvistendahl Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (New York: Public Affairs, 2011) 150

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Anti-choice

“Any story I write about abortion instigates a flood of emails from angry anti-choicers, complaining about my so-called bias. Often they’re complaining about being called antichoice.”

Kristen Philipkoski, biotech reporter, Wired magazine

Gloria Feldt The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women’s Rights and How to Fight Back (New York: Bantam Dell, 2004) 183

Of course. Because using the word “anti-choice” is not biased at all

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Woman who aborted comments on other patient’s reaction

From a woman who had an abortion because her baby was handicapped. This woman describes being at the abortion clinic and seeing all the women there who were having abortions because they didn’t want a baby. She thought that her situation was different because she wanted the baby until finding out the baby would have something wrong with it. She describes being in the recovery room:

“And what stands out in my mind is that there was this very young, beautiful teenager, a young Asian girl, and while I was resting, you know, recuperating, waiting to go downstairs, she got up from the cot and stepped on the scale, you know, to see if she’d lost any weight. I just about died. I felt so bad for her. Oh, Jesus! I just felt bad like, she missed the whole point. Maybe she’s lucky to have been, you know, so stupid. But it’s a fucking tragedy, to be so stupid about something so valuable.”

Rayna Rapp Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America (New York: Routledge, 1999) 237

She considered the girl’s baby to have been valuable, because (she assumes) it had been healthy. Her own baby, of course, had ceased to be valuable as soon as she found out it would not be “normal.” But she also seems to realize the gravity of the abortion decision, while the “Asian girl” does not.

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Clinic worker compares killing unborn babies to euthanizing dogs

From pro-life activist Pastor Warren Fox:

“Once, as I stood beside Judy [another prolifer] on the sidewalk in front of a killing center, she spoke to an abortion worker arriving for the day. Leaving her car, the worker made her way toward the entrance of the clinic. As she had done so many times before, Judy called the worker’s name and said, “Won’t you please let me help you find employment in another place? You can use your medical training to save lives instead of taking them.”

Unexpectedly, the woman turned to Judy and said, “Let me ask you a question. Do you think it’s okay to euthanize dogs?”

Judy and I looked at each other incredulous that she asked such a thing. Before we could answer, the worker said, “What’s the difference?”

Judy Madsen Johnson Stories from the Frontlines: the Battle against Abortion, self published, 2014

9 – 10 week unborn baby. Over 40% of all abortions happen after 9 weeks

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Scientist removes organs from living unborn babies

14 weeks – legal to abort in every US state — 14 weeks

The March 15, 1973 Washington Post reported that Dr. Gerald Gaull, Chief of Pediatrics at the New York State Institute of Basic Research in Mental Retardation,

“… injects radioactive chemicals into fragile umbilical cords of fetuses freshly removed from their mother’s womb in abortions. While the heart is still beating, he removes their brains, lungs, livers, and kidneys for study.”

Joan Wester Anderson. “Beyond Abortion Fetal Experimentation, New Upjohn Drug Delivers Perfect Fetus for Laboratory Use.” Our Sunday Visitor, April 13, 1975, page 1. Also reported in the Washington Post, April 15, 1973.

This is an old quote, but such atrocities still take place today.

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The canary in the mine; we are losing, says abortion provider

“This is the canary in the mine…. I mean, we’re clearly losing. There is no question, we’re losing.”

Diane Derzis is president of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only abortion provider in the state of Mississippi. She is discussing the clinic regulations that are threatening to shut down her abortion business.

Fewer abortion clinics mean more babies like the one below surviving instead of being brutally killed.

Clinic regulations also prevent the terrible conditions found in some clinics.

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Pro-choice supporter: unwanted children are a drain on tax money, abortion cheaper

When legislators were first discussing legalizing abortion, one of their motives was the elimination of poor children who were drain on the economy.

According to one congressman supporter of abortion becoming legal in North Carolina (prior to Roe V Wade):

“Unwanted children are a large drain on tax money. In contrast, an abortion earlier than the 12^th week of pregnancy costs only about $25.”

Johanna Choen Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005) 190

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