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Suction aspiration: First trimester.
A suction tube is inserted into the mother's womb. The
suction and cutting edge dismember the baby while the hose sucks the body
parts into a collection bottle.
Dilation and evacuation (D&E): Second trimester (24+ weeks).
A forceps is used to grab parts of the baby and then
tears the baby apart. The baby's head must be crushed in order to remove it
because the skull bone has already hardened.
Dilation and extraction (also known as D&X or partial-birth abortion):
Used well into the third trimester (as late as 32 weeks old).
The abortionist reaches into the mother's womb, grabs the baby's feet with a
forceps and pulls the baby out of the mother, except for the head. The
abortionist then jams a pair of scissors into the back of the baby's head
and spreads the scissors apart to make a hole in the baby's skull. The
abortionist removes the scissors and sticks a suction tube into the skull to
suck the baby's brain out. The baby's head is crushed and the abortionist
pulls the baby's body out the rest of the way.
These are some of the "choices" made by or supported by those who are
"pro-choice." These are the deadly choices made by the doctors and other
practitioners in the abortion industry who make a living off the babies they
kill.
A Child, Not a Choice
But is it a baby that is being killed or just a "bunch of cells?" In one
sense the answer depends on whom you ask. Ask any "expectant" mother and she
will tell you about the baby in her womb, not the fetus, zygote, or mass of
cells. As soon as she finds out that she is pregnant, her thoughts go to the
new life living within her and all the plans, hopes and aspirations that
accompany that experience. Does a change in the circumstances of pregnancy,
namely unwanted, unplanned, or inconvenient pregnancy, change the nature of
the life within the mother's womb?
We hear much of "viability," i.e. the baby's ability to survive outside the
mother's womb. It is true that for most of the pregnancy a baby is not
viable outside the mother's womb, but neither is a child already born that
viable without the constant input of human care. Viability does not
constitute a change is the essential nature of the pre-born child. Each of
us who engages this discussion today, regardless of the side we are on, was
once non-viable in many ways. At no point during the biological process that
began when that particular sperm donated by our biological fathers
fertilized that particular egg donated by our biological mothers was there
ever a possibility that we who are the results of that process should turn
out to be dogs, rabbits, or anything other than human beings.
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