Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former abortionist, on the D&E procedure:
“This [the D&E procedure] strikes me as rash and irresponsible… The surgeon is working blind, and the womb is soft from pregnancy, and the relatively large chunks of jagged bone and cartilage wreak havoc if they are not removed with great skill.”
Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) 44
The D&E procedure is the most common second trimester abortion method used in the United States. Read a doctors description of the procedure here.
Here is a diagram of the procedure.
