{"id":164915,"date":"2017-04-17T19:21:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=164915"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:20:10","slug":"each-finger-counted-what-pro-life-doctor-saw-while-completing-first-trimester-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/each-finger-counted-what-pro-life-doctor-saw-while-completing-first-trimester-miscarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Each finger could be counted’: Doctor encounters baby in first trimester"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melissa Ogle, MD, is a pro-life doctor I wrote about in\u00a0a previous article<\/a>.\u00a0When she was young, she had an abortion and deeply regretted it. She told her story in her\u00a0book Still Healing<\/em>:\u00a0A Doctor’s Story of Abortion<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Many years after her abortion, a woman came to her whose preborn baby had died in utero. To prevent serious health problems in the woman, Ogle had to remove the body of the baby from the woman’s\u00a0womb. This was not an abortion<\/em><\/strong>, because the baby was already dead. It was the completion of a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

Although it was not an abortion, as it did not terminate a baby’s life, the technique Ogle used is the same one used in first trimester abortions. In fact, it is the most common abortion method used in America today. In this type of abortion, the cervix (neck of the womb) is dilated and an instrument called a cannula is inserted in the woman’s womb. The cannula is attached to a tube which in turn is attached to a powerful suction machine. When the suction machine is turned on, the child is pulled into the tube. Usually, the baby is dismembered during this process. Then the abortionist must inspect the remains.<\/p>\n

Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino, who himself performed thousands of abortions, illustrates this abortion method:<\/p>\n