{"id":251175,"date":"2021-08-26T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=251175"},"modified":"2021-08-29T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T02:48:50","slug":"state-reports-gruesome-abortion-procedures-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/state-reports-gruesome-abortion-procedures-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"State reports reveal gruesome abortion procedures once thought obsolete are still being committed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to data reviewed by Live Action News, two gruesome abortion procedures used shortly after abortion was legalized are being used again today, and the reason is unclear: the hysterectomy\/<\/strong>hysterotomy and saline abortion methods. While some saline (prostaglandin) reports could be the result of miscoding, there is a concern that hysterotomy abortions conducted in both the first and second trimesters \u2014\u00a0which are very dangerous for women \u2014\u00a0could be used to procure live human specimens for ghoulish research like the experiments\u00a0conducted<\/a>\u00a0using aborted children at the University of Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WARNING: Graphic images of abortion victims below.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1973, journalist\u00a0Nick Thimmesch described these horrific procedures in a Newsweek article, “The Abortion Culture.” He wrote, “The saline solution burns away the outer layer of the baby’s skin. The ultimate is the hysterotomy (Caesarean section) abortion. As an operation, it can save mother and child; as an abortion it kills the child. Often, this baby fights for its life, breathes, moves and even cries…”<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0images below from the 1981 pro-life brochure, “Death or Life<\/a>” by Hayes Publishing, shows the end result of both gruesome abortion methods.<\/p>\n

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Hysterotomy abortion and Saline or Prostaglandin abortion (Image: pamphlet Life or Death Hayes Publishing)<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1976, doctors\u00a0testifying<\/a> before a Senate panel also described these horrific procedures.<\/p>\n

“The child is alive and often breathing when he is delivered, but because it has been removed from the mother by an abortion rather than by delivery, it is then killed, either directly, by drowning or asphyxiation, for example, or indirectly by exposure,”\u00a0Maryland physician William F. Colliton, Jr. told the panel regarding hysterotomy abortion.<\/p>\n

Dr. William J. Godfrey, a specialist in internal medicine, was equally as descriptive. “When aborted, such babies move their arms and legs and try to breathe but, due to their immaturity, they finally die on the table with the help of the willful neglect of the medical personnel,” he told the panel. “And if the baby is still alive when the obstetrician is finished caring for the mother, in order that the next case may come into the delivery room, the baby may even be put to death by suffocation. And to put further bloody icing onto the cake, these are the very live babies some proabortionists are advocating that we turn over for experimentation with the false pretentions of helping mankind. A good pragmatic example of the end justifying the means.”<\/p>\n

Godfrey then\u00a0described<\/a> the saline abortion. “It’s called salt poisoning. Upon injection of the salt, that is, saline, into the woman’s amniotic fluid, the baby swallows and breathes it in. He usually struggles for life for about 45 to 60 minutes with repeated convulsions, for the salt water swells his brain cells,” he said. “The woman feels her baby convulsing again and again until he finally dies. The corrosive salt water burns the outer layer of skin from his body and he develops the red appearance of inflammation. And thus these babies have been called the ‘candy apple babies’.”<\/p>\n

Grisly abortion methods committed today<\/strong><\/p>\n

The state of Minnesota describes<\/a>\u00a0the saline injection or Intrauterine instillation abortion<\/em> as, “Termination of pregnancy induced through intra\u2010amniotic injection (amniocentesis\u2010injection) of a\u00a0substance such as saline, urea, or a prostaglandin.” They also describe Hysterotomy\/hysterectomy<\/em> abortion as, “Termination of pregnancy by removing the fetus\u00a0through an incision in the uterus or by removing\u00a0the uterus.”<\/p>\n

Live Action News reviewed several state reports that publish data on procedures used. We discovered:<\/p>\n

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  • Missouri 2019<\/a>\u00a0– Four (4) “intrauterine instillation” abortions and one (1) hysterotomy\/hysterectomy all committed after the second trimester<\/li>\n
  • Pennsylvania 2019<\/a>\u00a0– Eight (8) hysterotomy\/hysterectomy abortions and three (3) intra-uterine instillation (saline or\u00a0prostaglandin) abortions conducted in both first and second trimesters<\/li>\n
  • South Carolina 2019<\/a>\u00a0– One (1) hysterotomy\/hysterectomy abortion conducted in the second trimester<\/li>\n
  • Michigan 2020<\/a>\u00a0– Two (2) saline or prostaglandin abortions and two (2) hysterotomy\/hysterectomy procedures, conducted after second trimester<\/li>\n
  • Texas 2020<\/a>\u00a0– One (1) hysterotomy\/hysterectomy abortion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    2019 PA abortion by procedure hysterotomy and saline abortions<\/p><\/div>\n

    While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0called<\/a> the hysterotomy\/hysterectomy and saline abortion methods “uncommon” and “rare,” the organization recorded five committed in Florida and 15 in New York\u00a0in its 2018 report.<\/p>\n

    The report later showed that 44 hysterotomy\/hysterectomy<\/em>\u00a0abortions and 164 intrauterine instillation <\/em>abortions\u00a0were committed nationally in both the first and second trimesters in 2018.\u00a0That same year, the state of New York reported\u00a0committing<\/a> 121 saline injection<\/em> abortions, as well as 68 prostaglandin abortions.<\/p>\n

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    2018 CDC abortion by procedure hysterotomy amd saline abortions<\/p><\/div>\n

    Research on abortion survivors<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Historically,\u00a0hysterotomy has been tied<\/a> to research on live aborted children.<\/p>\n

    Live Action News previously<\/a>\u00a0documented how University of Pittsburgh anatomist Davenport Hooker<\/a> conducted research on children who survived surgical abortion by\u00a0hysterotomy<\/a>. Hooker even published a film showing how he stimulated the skin of “therapeutically aborted fetuses removed by Caesarian section,” according to\u00a0PittMed<\/a>, a publication of the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

    His “Early Fetal Human Activity\u201d film<\/a> (below)\u00a0showed the muscle activity of six aborted children ranging from 8 1\/2 to 14 weeks.\u00a0(Warning<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Images may be disturbing for some<\/span>):<\/p>\n