Abortion

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second most common method is called saline injection or salt poisoning and is used after sixteen weeks or pregnancy. The doctor inserts a long needle through the mother’s abdomen and injects a saline solution into the sac of amnionic fluid surrounding the fetus. The fetus is poisened by swallowing the salt and it’s skin completly burned away. It takes about an hour to kill the fetus. After the child dies, the mother goes into labor and expels the dead baby. Saline injections have been outlawed in some countries because of the risks to the mother, which can include lung and kidney if the salt finds its way into her bloodstream. In spite the horrible burning effect, some babies have survived “salting out” and been born alive.
Dilation and Curettage (D&C) is a method used during the end of the first trimester and the beginning of the second trimester. In D&C the doctor inserts a curette, a loop shaped steel knife, into the womb through the dilated cervix. As the curette ...

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