{"id":48962,"date":"2014-04-26T01:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=48962"},"modified":"2017-10-22T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T00:29:28","slug":"10-descriptions-of-abortion-from-abortion-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/10-descriptions-of-abortion-from-abortion-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"What is abortion? By the abortionists who do it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I can remember going over and looking at the baby when we were done with the surgery and the baby was still alive. You could see the chest was moving and the heart was beating, and the baby would try to take a little breath, and it really hurt inside, and it began to educate me as to what abortion really was. – Dr. David Brewer<\/em><\/p>\n

One of my most memorable moments in pro-life work came when I was about fifteen years old. My brothers and I had decided to hit up the little cement pads outside some of the stores our mom frequented, collecting signatures for an Infant Born Alive Protection Act and a Partial Birth Abortion Ban.<\/p>\n

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As one man exited a Big Lots, one of us approached him, asking him to sign. He was somewhat perplexed, wondering what “partial-birth abortion” was. So we told him. Bluntly. We let the man know that partial-birth abortion included sticking scissors into the neck of an almost born baby and sucking out her brains.<\/p>\n

But the man didn’t believe us. He took another look and informed us that we were making this up<\/em>. According to him, this didn’t happen in America. And he left without signing.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest jobs we have today is letting Americans know exactly what abortion is. It’s simply – and unfortunately – not enough to go around and say how wrong “abortion” is. “Abortion,” in too many Americans’ minds, is a perplexing, nebulous, and vague topic.<\/p>\n

Dr. Warren Hern – a late-term abortion doctor from Boulder, Colorado – exemplifies the belief of many in the abortion industry who know the true facts of what’s involved. In\u00a0Abortion Practice<\/em>, he says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Television interviews in particular should focus on the public issue involved (right to confidential and professional medical care, freedom of choice and so forth) and not on the specific details of the procedure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But all Americans ought to know the facts and the “specific details.” We all ought to be educated and informed. So let’s take the facts from those who know best: abortion doctors – including Warren Hern. Here are 10\u00a0descriptions compiled by Sarah Terzo they have given. Use these the next time you need to describe abortion to a family member, Facebook friend, fellow student, roommate, co-worker, or yes – even a stranger outside a store.<\/p>\n

1) An act of destruction<\/strong><\/p>\n

“There is no possibility of denial of an act of destruction by the operator…the sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current.” – Dr. Warren Hern<\/a> in “Meeting of American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians” OB GYN News, page 196<\/p>\n

2) Real body parts are involved<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Arms, legs, and chests come out of the forceps. It’s not a sight for everybody.” – Dr. William Benbow Thompson<\/a> at the University of California at Irvine, The Crime of Being Alive: Abortion, Euthanasia, Infanticide<\/em> by Melody Green and Sharon Bennett, page 3<\/p>\n

3) Dismembered and decapitated <\/strong><\/p>\n

“Long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus.” – Abortion Practice<\/em> by Warren Hern<\/a>, M.D., Boulder Colorado abortionist<\/p>\n

4) Teeny tiny hands<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Dr. Bours squeezed the contents of the sock into a shallow dish and poked around with his finger. ‘You can see a teeny tiny hand’ he said.” – abortion clinic worker quoted<\/a> in “Is the Fetus Human” and in “The Abortion Conflict: What it Does to One Doctor” by Dudley Clendinen, New York Times Magazine, Aug 11, 1985, page 26<\/p>\n

5) A person, a baby – pulled apart piece by piece<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I want the general public to know what the doctors know- that this is a person, this is a baby. That this is not some kind of blob of tissue.”<\/p>\n

“A second-trimester D&E abortion is a blind procedure. The baby can be in any orientation or position inside the uterus. Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp and grasping anything you can. At twenty weeks\u2019 gestation, the uterus is thin and soft, so be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard \u2013 really hard. You feel something let go, and out pops a fully formed leg, about 4 to 5 inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again, and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp, and tear out the spine, intestines, heart, and lungs.<\/p>\n