Abortion

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are the Dilatation and Curettage (D&C) where a loop shaped steel knife
is inserted and the child is cut into pieces, also there is the Dilatation and
Evacuation (D&E) where the doctor uses forceps with sharp metal jaws and tears
the child apart, piece by piece. Usually the head is hardened to bone and must
be compressed or crushed in order to get it out. Another highly controversial
technique that is getting a lot of publicity nowadays is the partial birth
method. This procedure in performed in the second and third trimesters of
pregnancy or between 20 to 32 weeks, sometimes later. Now according to
Abortion: Some medical facts, a book printed by the National Right to Life,
the partial birth technique is performed like this: "Guided by ultrasound, the
abortionist reaches into the uterus, grabs the unborn baby's leg with forceps,
and pulls the baby into the birth canal, except for the head, which is
deliberately kept just inside the womb. ( At this point in a partial ...

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