{"id":171683,"date":"2017-09-12T07:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=171683"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:07:57","slug":"leroy-carhart-de-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/leroy-carhart-de-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"During D&E abortion, the baby ‘bleeds to death as it is torn limb from limb’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy once quoted abortionist Leroy Carhart<\/a> in a dissenting opinion<\/a> for the high court. Carhart was a party to the case and had given testimony regarding what happens during a D&E\u00a0abortion procedure<\/a> — the most common second trimester abortion done in the U.S.\u00a0Justice Kennedy directly quoted Carhart and summarized other portions of the abortionist’s explanation, keeping it brief and pointed so the reader could understand what happens:<\/p>\n

The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.<\/p>\n

Dr. Carhart agreed that \u201c[w]hen you pull out a piece of the fetus, let\u2019s say, an arm or a leg and remove that, at the time just prior to removal of the portion of the fetus, \u2026 the fetus [is] alive.\u201d Dr. Carhart has observed fetal heartbeat via ultrasound with \u201cextensive parts of the fetus removed,\u201d and testified that mere dismemberment of a limb does not always cause death because he knows of a physician who removed the arm of a fetus only to have the fetus go on to be born \u201cas a living child with one arm.\u201d …\u00a0In Dr. Carhart\u2019s words, the abortionist is left with \u201ca tray full of pieces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist, explains D&E abortion with animated visual aids and actual abortion tools in the video below:<\/p>\n