{"id":179537,"date":"2018-02-25T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T15:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=179537"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:57:07","slug":"pathologist-dissecting-abortion-med-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pathologist-dissecting-abortion-med-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathologists traumatized after finding eyeballs of aborted babies: They stare right at you"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2013, LifeNews ran an article<\/a> with quotes from pathologists who examined the bodies of babies killed in abortion<\/a>. The quotes in the article\u00a0came from a forum<\/a> sponsored by the Student – Doctor Network<\/a> (SDN), a nonprofit organization that supports medical students.\u00a0The SDN has a number of forums where people with different levels of education in the field of medicine can discuss issues with colleagues. There are forums for premed students, forums for medical students, and forums for established practitioners. In the \u201cPathology Forum\u201d under \u201cPhysician\/Resident Forums,\u201d a pathologist posted a message for his peers about dissecting aborted babies.<\/p>\n

If an abortion facility is following medical guidelines, it must send fetal remains to a pathology lab to be examined. (Sometimes abortion facilities do not<\/em> do this, and instead simply dump fetal remains<\/a>.) The examination is meant to double check that all the parts of the baby\u2019s body have been removed and that nothing has been left behind. If any part of the baby is left in the uterus, it can cause a severe infection. Abortionists check aborted babies (or \u201cproducts of conception,\u201d as they call them) visually, but a pathologist\u2019s examination is needed to rule out the possibility of an incomplete abortion.<\/p>\n

The pathologist who started the discussion, whose posts are quoted in their original form without grammatical corrections, wrote about how examining the remains of aborted babies upset him:<\/p>\n

Anyone get tripped on these? I\u2019m talking especially the big ones, where you can actually make out facial expressions like they knew they were being hacked the hell up (im serious). I almost went bonkers once over one, that is some scary crap. Am I the only pathologist who freaks when a 0.5 cm eye ball comes rolling out of bag and stares right at you\u2026. I know we are thinking this, just no one in pathology is talking about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another pathologist responded:<\/p>\n

Totally trippy man. We get a fair number of fragmented fetuses from abortion procedures and they come in a container with formalin. The fact that they\u2019re all hacked up is disturbing to begin with. Of course, there is the whole eyeball issue which freaks me out as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pathologists are accustomed to examining body parts and organs, but apparently, seeing the mutilated bodies of aborted children is deeply troubling to some of them. Abortion procedures are violent, regardless of how early they are committed. Dr. Anthony Levatino describes a D&E abortion, typically committed between 13 and 24 weeks of pregnancy:<\/p>\n