The Abortion Procedure

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The Abortion Procedure

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The Abortion Procedure

After an Abortion (For the Mother & Child)

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The Abortion Procedure

An abortion isn't pretty. In fact, it's a gruesome and bloody procedure where an abortionist may actually cut a baby's body to pieces, tear off the arms and legs, suck out brains, crush the skull (e.g. when it is too large to pass through the tubing), dismember the body, engage in salt poisoning/burning, or even strangulation. Despite their best efforts, sometimes abortions are 'unsuccessful' and babies come out alive. Depending on the method, a baby may be taken out alive and left in a pail to die. Sometimes the babies in the pail even cry as they die. Medical personnel may turn their backs on the dying baby and refuse to help it, even despite the mothers sorrowful pleadings for help. When the monstrous abortion procedure is over, the abortionist may need to reassemble all the baby's body parts to make sure none remain inside the mother.  

Since as many as 95% of all induced abortions occur after the child is at least 10 weeks after conception and can feel pain, abortions actually physically hurt the children - and they try to fight it. A video tape of one abortion shows the child trying to get away from the instruments used to kill it. Its heart races, and it tries to escape. It is ultimately dismembered. At one point, it opened its mouth as if to scream.

Some abortions are also very traumatic for the mother. Women may die of complications related to procedure - and, even if they aren't injured or killed during the abortion itself, they may suffer a range of medical and emotional problems later. They may also find that body parts of their aborted children (e.g. hands, feet, toes, fingers, etc.) were left inside them (a dangerous situation that may cause infection). Click here for more information on how abortion threatens a woman's health and even her very life

Abortionists use a variety of methods used to kill unborn children, including:

• D & E (dilation and evacuation) - In this bloody procedure, the abortionist tears apart the baby inside its mother. The head may be crushed to remove it from the womb.

• D & C (dilation and curettage) - In this monstrous procedure, the abortionist knifes the child into pieces while still inside the mother before removing the baby from her womb.

• Suction Curettage Abortion/Suction Abortion - This barbaric procedure involves sucking a child (either whole or in pieces) with a suction machine - like a powerful vacuum cleaner- into a collection jar. The baby may be dismembered while still in the mother. The abortionist must examine the contents of the jar to be certain none of the baby's body parts (e.g. little hand, foot, toe, etc.) is left inside its mother.

• Saline abortion/Salt-poisoning abortion - In this cruel procedure, the abortionist may replace amniotic fluid with salt which burns the child alive. The mother's body then expels the dead (or dying) baby.

• Prostaglandin injection - In this pitiful procedure, the abortionist may induce premature labor. Since live births may occur, the abortionist may first inject a toxin to kill the child. Sometimes babies are born alive and left to die.

• Hysterotomy - In this sad procedure, the child is removed directly through an incision (like a Caesarian section, only with a different end in view). A live child may be left to die (e.g. by starvation, drowning, strangulation, etc.). 

• D & X (dilation and extraction)/Partial birth abortion - In this savage procedure, the abortionist pulls out most of the baby's body, leaving only the head inside its mother. Then the abortionist rams scissors into the baby's head and removes the baby's brains while its head is still inside the mother to collapse its skull. The mutilated baby is then removed from its mother. "The fetus within this time frame of gestation, 20 weeks and beyond, is fully capable of experiencing pain. Without doubt a partial birth abortion is a dreadfully painful experience for any infant." (R. White, Director of Neurosurgery & Brain Research, Case Western Univ.)

• Birth control - Birth control actually acts as an abortifacient (even unknowingly). Many who use birth control may have had abortions without ever knowing they were pregnant. Click here for more information

One can easily see that killing children isn't a pretty business. 

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After an Abortion

For the Mother

As indicated above, women who have an abortion may suffer a range of medical and emotional problems after the procedure even if they aren't injured during the abortion itself, even including discovering that body parts of their aborted children (e.g. hands, feet, toes, fingers, etc.) were left inside them (a dangerous situation that may cause infection). The risks to a woman's health from an abortion may be many and severe. It is possible that a woman who has survived an abortion will ultimately die as a result of it later in life, even if no symptoms show up for years. Click here for more information on how abortion threatens a woman's health and even her very life

For the Baby

After the cruel abortion procedure, there is still the sorry matter of the disposal of the baby's body. Since the poor child is unlikely to receive a decent human burial or a funeral, his or her body may be disposed of by the abortionists in a variety of ways. Or, instead of disposing of them, he may chose to cut them up and sell them (or sell them whole). Since an abortionist is able to kill innocent children for a living, it is not surprising that the 'remains' of his 'work' are also treated in an ignominious manner. 

The following are some possible dispositions of the remains of aborted babies:

• The bodies may be literally thrown in the trash. Actual cases of bodies found in a dumpster have been documented.

• Organs from aborted babies may be taken for transplants. Organs may even be removed while the baby is still alive and able to feel pain.

• Abortionists may actually sell - and make money from - body parts of aborted babies. "Sales of aborted baby parts is actually a big business."

• Some companies (e.g. pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies) have used (and may still use) parts from aborted babies in their products.

• Aborted fetuses have been used for experimentation (sometimes while still alive and can feel pain).

• Embryos have been sold as "novelty" items (e.g. encased in plastic as a paperweight). 

• Embryos may be sold for use in schools.

It is interesting to note that when an abortionist can make money from a pregnant woman, the unborn baby may be called "just a blob of tissue", but when an abortionist can make money selling body parts of aborted children, the same "blob of tissue" is suddenly recognized as human (a catalog of items for sale may even list a "whole human embryo").

Further, take a moment to reflect on that fact that in our country, there is the 'legal' KILLING of defenseless children followed by the SELLING and PACKAGING and SHIPPING of human bodies (sometimes they may still be alive and able to feel pain). 

These children have no voice. Often their mothers were deceived. Everyone involved - including society in general - suffers. And, do not forget, their blood cries out to God for vengeance.

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