In his textbook on how to do abortions, Abortion Practice, Dr. Warren Hern describes second trimester abortion:
“[at 18 weeks post fertilization age] it can be a significantly more difficult procedure accompanied by unnerving hemorrhage. Forceps use must be sure and relatively rapid. There is frequently not much time for exploring the nuances of different tissue sensations. Grasping and collapsing the calvaria [upper domelike portion of the skull] are often difficult. Stripping the calvaria of soft tissue is sometimes the first step in successful delivery of this part, followed by dislocation of parietal bones… [From 19 to 22 weeks post fertilization age] A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus, since it may be impossible to apply forceps or to do so while avoiding the thinned out cervix.”
Warren Hern Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J Lippincott, 1990) PP 153 154 in Stephen Wagner, Common Ground Without Compromise: 25 Questions to Create Dialogue on Abortion. (Signal Hill, CA: Stand to Reason, 2008)76
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We believe that a woman should be free to make the family planning choices that are right for her without limitation or coercion cos her body is a personal space whose privacy and autonomy should be defended.”
Aborting is something that is very difficult for any one concerned. The women who do it are highly determined to do it for reasons best known to themselves. I have seen women abandon one day babies in trenches and dustbins because they could not abort them. I believe that lets leave women alone to choose as long as they do not harm a leaving child.