The Advantages of the D&E Procedure: Fewer Live Births

In his textbook on how to do abortions, abortion practice, Dr. Warren Hern says the following:

“The advantages of the D&E procedure for the patient are significant. The complications rates are lower in most respects even in preliminary analysis. The time of terminations of the procedure is predictable, and preparation does not require overnight hospitalization. Parental or spouse consent is, therefore, not required, and confidentiality can be protected. The patient does not have to experience a prolonged and painful labor, which may be unproductive. She does not have to experience the expulsion of the fetus, which may or may not have signs of life, whereas in the strictly pharmacological approach, this event is common and the patient may be unattended when it happens.”

He also says, in chapter 5:

“The signs of fetal life on expulsion and the repugnance of dismemberment plague the alternatives in midtrimester abortion.”

“Abortion Practice” by Warren Hern, M.D., Boulder Colorado Abortionist published in 1984 by the J.B. Lippenott