{"id":251266,"date":"2021-08-16T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=251266"},"modified":"2021-08-15T21:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T02:59:50","slug":"baby-olivia-puts-second-trimester-abortion-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-olivia-puts-second-trimester-abortion-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Baby Olivia&#8217; puts second-trimester abortion into disturbing reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Live Action&#8217;s new &#8220;Baby Olivia&#8221; project is shining a light on the humanity of preborn children. Using scientific details from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehd.org\/prenatal-summary.php#fb2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Endowment for Human Development<\/a> and world-class medical experts, the video features the world\u2019s most realistic and medically accurate animated representation of prenatal development, with computer-generated 3D animation created through motion capture technology of real human movement.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers see Olivia\u2019s journey from her very beginning at the moment of fertilization, through the moment she&#8217;s ready to be born. This includes the second trimester, when the preborn child begins to look undeniably human. Yet, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/ss\/ss6907a1.htm#T9_down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thousands of abortions<\/a> are committed during the second trimester each year.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-lQOooYAs8\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the second trimester, the preborn baby is displaying obvious human behaviors. By 13 weeks gestation, she can make complex facial expressions; by 16 weeks, she can respond to touch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/baby-olivia-second-trimester-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>\u2018Baby Olivia\u2019 shows a preborn child\u2019s incredible second trimester growth<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At 18 weeks gestation, a preborn child releases stress hormones after being poked with a needle. This is especially relevant to abortion, because it&#8217;s further proof that preborn children can <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/uk-preborn-babies-pain-12-weeks-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feel the pain<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0brutally violent abortion procedures to which they are subjected. Recent research has revealed that preborn children likely <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-researcher-preborn-pain-earlier\/\">feel pain by the end of the first trimester<\/a>, if not before.<\/p>\n<p>The most common abortion procedure committed in the second trimester is a dilation and evacuation, or D&amp;E, abortion. It&#8217;s a surgical procedure that takes several days to complete.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgw4X7Dw_3k\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To begin, the abortionist inserts laminaria (thin seaweed sticks which slowly dilate the cervix) into the woman&#8217;s cervix to begin the process of dilation. This takes place 24-48 hours before the actual abortion is committed. Once the woman returns to the abortion facility, the process of committing the abortion begins.<\/p>\n<p>The abortionist might administer anesthesia and dilate the woman&#8217;s cervix even further, using a speculum and metal dilators. From there, he uses a large suction catheter to empty the uterus of amniotic fluid. The preborn child is killed when he uses a sopher clamp \u2014 a grasping instrument with rows of sharp \u201cteeth\u201d \u2014 to literally tear the preborn child apart, limb from limb. He pulls the arms and legs from the preborn child&#8217;s torso, along with other organs. Finally he locates the baby&#8217;s skull and crushes it.<\/p>\n<p>After the baby has been removed from the mother&#8217;s uterus, the abortionist uses a curette to scrape the walls of the mother&#8217;s womb, dislodging the placenta and making sure nothing is left behind. Abortion staffers must account for the baby&#8217;s body parts afterward to make sure everything was removed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to how gruesome this procedure is for the child, it also carries the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18772096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major complications<\/a> for the mother. There are risks of perforated or lacerated maternal organs, including the cervix, uterus, bladder, and rectum. A D&amp;E abortion also has a significant risk of heavy bleeding, cervical damage, and scar tissue, all of which can affect her ability to safely carry a child to term in a future pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Olivia makes it clear that the preborn child is a human being \u2014 and that abortion, therefore, is the intentional taking of a human life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Action&#8217;s new &#8220;Baby Olivia&#8221; project is shining a light on the humanity of preborn children. Using scientific details from the Endowment for Human Development and world-class medical experts, the video features the world\u2019s most realistic and medically accurate animated representation of prenatal development, with computer-generated 3D animation created through motion capture technology of real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":251001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[3369,11699,5074,1334,4304,4519,473,3903,11893],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Baby Olivia&#039; puts second-trimester abortion into disturbing reality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The second trimester is when the preborn child begins to look undeniably human. 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