Abortion proponents invariably advance their position with phrases like "reproductive rights", "freedom of choice", and "a woman's control over her own body". We can clarify the abortion debate by considering what really happens in an abortion. Read this excerpt from court hearings concerning a ban on a partial birth abortion in the United States in 2004.
Lawyer: Then you remove the fetus with the towel, you put it on the table, and you turn back to the woman to deal with the placenta, right?
Abortionist: That’s right.
Lawyer: If you can’t do that, you know you are going to have to crush the head, and so you take a clamp and you grasp the cervix to elevate it, and then your assistant there in the operating room will pull down on the fetus’s legs or back,
gently lowering the fetus’s head toward the opening of the vagina, right?
Abortionist: Right.
Lawyer: That is when you put two fingers at the back of the fetus’s neck at the base of the skull where you can feel the base of the skull, and then you puncture the skull with the scissors, right?
Abortionist: I usually can see it as well as feel it. But yes.
Lawyer: At that point you see some brain tissue come out, and you are 100 percent certain that you are in the brain, so you open the scissors to expand the hole, remove the scissors, and put the suction device in the skull, right?
Abortionist: Correct.
Upon learning what really happens in a partial birth abortion, Congress and the American people strongly supported the law banning this procedure. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court.
The abortion method called "D and E", meaning "Dilation and Evacuation", is the most common form of abortion performed after the third month of pregnancy. The United States Supreme Court described a "D and E" abortion in its 2007 decision "Gonzales versus Carhart":
The doctor grips a fetal part with the forceps and pulls it back through the cervix …, continuing to pull even after meeting resistance from the cervix. The friction causes the fetus to tear apart. For example, a leg might be ripped off the fetus as it is pulled through the cervix and out of the woman. The process of evacuating the fetus piece by piece continues until it has been completely removed.
Whenever we get into a discussion of abortion, we can ask the question: Is it right to allow the killing of a baby through limb by limb dismemberment? The answer is obvious: of course not. Remembering the reality of abortion makes the finding an answer to the abortion question much simpler. It is never right to deliberately kill an innocent human being at any stage of life. Abortion is a particularly disturbing denial of the right to life, due to the age of its victims and the manner of the killing.
May Swaziland never accept abortion the way so many other "advanced" societies have. No to abortion; yes to life.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
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