{"id":82245,"date":"2015-12-12T08:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=82245"},"modified":"2015-12-13T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T02:51:46","slug":"eyewitness-suction-abortion-describes-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/eyewitness-suction-abortion-describes-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness to a suction abortion describes its aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author Sue Hertz wrote the book Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion\u2019s Front Line<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0She interviewed both pro-lifers\u00a0outside abortion facilities\u00a0and abortion facility\u00a0workers and doctors. \u00a0She also included her observations of staff and abortion\u00a0workers in the book. At one point, she observes a first trimester abortion.<\/p>\n

The abortion she describes was performed by suction and is known as an aspiration (or suction) abortion. In this type of abortion, the cervix is dilated with metal rods and a medical instrument called a cannula attached to a tube is inserted into\u00a0the womb. The tube is attached on the other end to a suction machine, and when the machine turns on, the preborn baby is pulled\u00a0out in pieces. The dismembered body parts\u00a0are sucked into a jar which sometimes has a cheesecloth sack to catch the fetal parts.\u00a0The abortionist then scrapes the lining of the uterus to get out any pieces of the baby or placenta he may have missed. This is the most common abortion procedure in the United States.<\/p>\n

Hertz\u00a0describes what the doctor did after the procedure she witnessed was complete. She says:<\/p>\n

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\u2026 [the doctor] removed from the glass jar the cheesecloth sack which caught the fetal parts, dumping the parts into a basin at the end of the table, between [the patient’s] feet. “Two legs, two arms, two fists, a skull, a backbone, a placenta. \u201cWe\u2019ve got it\u201d he announced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The doctor needs to carefully search through the parts<\/a> to make sure that every part of the baby has been removed. An arm or leg left behind could cause a terrible infection. In very rare, but horrifying cases, women have actually passed<\/a>\u00a0an arm or leg\u00a0<\/a>of their aborted child that was left inside them days after the abortion.<\/p>\n

The diagram below illustrates an abortion by suction:<\/p>\n

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This is how Planned Parenthood describes this type of abortion<\/a> on their website:<\/p>\n

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A tube is inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Either a hand-held suction device or a suction machine gently empties your uterus. Sometimes, an instrument called a curette is used to remove any remaining tissue that lines the uterus. It may also be used to check that the uterus is empty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is the extent of the information Planned Parenthood wants it’s patients to know.\u00a0“Gently emptied” is a stunning euphemism. It is a nice, sugarcoated way to describe a brutal procedure that tears apart a baby. It reassures the woman considering abortion. What could be more benign than a uterus “gently emptied” of “tissue”?\u00a0Planned Parenthood is struggling to convince us that there’s nothing to see here, only “tissue” and a womb that is “gently emptied.” The fact that this “gentle” emptying tears apart a baby limb from limb is completely avoided. A woman reading this description would have no idea about what abortion was going to do to her preborn baby.<\/p>\n

Reading this description, it is not surprising that Planned Parenthood fights so hard to close pregnancy resource centers and keep their patients from going there. These centers tell women what the abortion will do to their child – not to mention what the abortion can do to the women themselves. Planned Parenthood doesn’t mention it, of course, but abortion has risks for the mother. One in 10 women<\/a> have complications.\u00a0<\/a>These may include<\/a>:<\/p>\n