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meanwhile:
Is Partial-Birth Abortion infanticide?
Here are the facts -- you decide:
First, the abortionist delivers the living child breech (feet first) until only the head remains in the mother.
An instrument, usually scissors, is then used to pierce the skull; the wound is opened and a catheter inserted to vacuum out the brain.
The skull collapses and delivery of the now dead child is complete.
These usually take place in mid-second trimester, although they are also performed in the third trimester as well.
Doctors have overwhelmingly agreed that this brutal procedure was never medically necessary to protect a woman's life, health or future fertility.
But to protect Partial Birth Abortion, Planned Parenthood falsely insisted it was used only rarely -- and only in cases when a woman's life or health was at extreme risk.
Planned Parenthood also falsely declared that the child dies in utero -- even before the abortion actually begins, from anesthesia given to the mother: "The fetus dies of an overdose of anesthesia given to the mother intravenously." (Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet: "HR 1833, Medical Questions and Answers")
However, Dr. Norig Ellison, President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Dr. David Chestnut, Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama, both testified before Congress that such a claim had "no basis in scientific fact."
Further, both doctors expressed serious concern that such misinformation had the effect of putting pregnant women at risk, as some began putting off needed medical procedures for fear that anesthesia given to them would hurt or kill their unborn child.
(Oversight Hearing: House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, "'Fetal Death' or Dangerous Deception? The Effects of Anesthesia During a Partial-Birth Aboriton" 3/21/96) |
