{"id":25883,"date":"2013-01-26T20:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=25883"},"modified":"2016-11-18T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T20:06:56","slug":"witnesses-to-abortion-there-is-no-doubt-abortion-kills-a-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/witnesses-to-abortion-there-is-no-doubt-abortion-kills-a-human-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses to abortion: There is no doubt abortion kills a human being"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I look inside the bucket in front of me. There is a small naked person there floating in a bloody liquid.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes authors of magazines are allowed to witness abortions in the course of writing articles. Sometimes medical students who never had an opinion on abortion come to grips with the procedure after viewing one. People who observe abortion procedures or abortion remains usually come away with little doubt that abortion is killing a human being.<\/p>\n

Author Verlyn Klinkenborg of Harper’s Magazine<\/em> visited an abortion facility\u00a0for a 1995 article. After viewing the remains of an abortion at ten weeks, he wrote the following (1):<\/p>\n

I felt a profound and unmistakable kinship with the foot and hand in the tray, a kinship so strong it was like the rolling of the sea under my feet[.] \u2026 I was surprised by my own sadness, by the sense of loss that I felt[.] \u2026 I found it so much easier to be moved by the sight of the disembodied hand the size of a question mark gleaming under fluorescent lights. \u2026 In that tiny, naked hand there was the imputation of innocence.<\/p>\n

\"Suction<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Author Sue Hertz spent a year observing in a busy abortion facility. She saw the remains of several abortions (2):<\/p>\n

It was easy to shrug off an aborted pregnancy as nothing more than a sack of blood and globs of tissue \u2013 as many pro-choice activists did- if one never saw fetal remains, or products of conception (POC) as they were known in medical circles. But the nurses, medical assistants, and doctors who worked inside procedure rooms \u2026 knew that an eleven-week-old POC harbored tiny arms and legs and feet with toes.<\/p>\n

At twelve weeks, those tiny hands had tiny nails. Although the fetal head was too small at this stage to withstand the evacuation machine\u2019s suction, pieces of face- a nose and mouth, or a black eye\u2026were sometimes found in the aftermath[.] \u2026 Later abortions spawned even more gruesome fetal remains \u2026 the head did not come out whole during the evacuation, but the legs and arms and rib cage made it through intact. The hand of a second trimester fetus, as a Preterm doctor described it, seemed big enough to shake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Anthony Levatino, former abortionist, describes what happens during\u00a0a second trimester abortion.<\/p>\n