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ISS:Abortion Methods, Complications, Experimentation  by James & Joan Werning

   ABORTION METHODS

   Suction abortion: Over 85% of all abortions in U.S. and Canada are
done by this method. The cervix is stretched open and a powerful
suction tube is inserted. This tears apart the body of the developing
baby and his placenta, sucking the "products of pregnancy" into a jar.

   D & C abortion: Performed between 7 and 12 weeks, this method
utilizes a loop shaped steel knife. The abortionist cuts the tiny body
to pieces and slices the placenta from the walls of the uterus.

   D & E abortion: Performed between 12 and 18 weeks, this method
utilizes a sharp toothed pliers-like instrument. The abortionist grasps
a part of the body of the baby and tears it away. This dismemberment of
the living baby continues without any fetal anaesthetic until all
parts, plus the deeply rooted afterbirth, are removed. Bleeding is
profuse.

   Prostaglandin abortion: Prostaglandin, a drug manufactured by Upjohn
Company, causes the woman to go into labor at any stage of pregnancy.
It is used in middle and late pregnancy to induce abortion. It's major
"complication" is "live birth". It also can cause serious maternal
injury.

   Salt poisoning: This method is done after 16 weeks. A long needle is
inserted through the mother's abdomen into the baby's sac and a
solution of concentrated salt is injected into it. The baby breathes in
and swallows the salt and is poisoned by it. The outer layer of skin is
burned off. This is the most painful method of abortion for the baby.
It takes over an hour to kill the child, and then the mother will go
into labor about 24 hours later. The risk of death to the mother is
high enough so that Japan has outlawed this procedure.

   Hysterotomy: This method is exactly like a Caesarean Section, but
the baby is not allowed to live. Morbidity for the mother is 15 times
greater than that of saline abortion.

   (Life or Death, pamphlet by Hayes Publishing Co., Cincinnati, OH)

   ABORTION COMPLICATIONS

   "The cervix of the teenager, pregnant for the first time, is
invaiably small and tightly closed and especially liable to damage on
dilatation." This quote was made by Dr. J.K. Russell based on records
he kept on 62 pregnant teenage patients, 50 of whom had abortions, 19
of whom later miscarriaged and 5 of whom had premature births (none of
the girls who kept their babies had these complications).

   ("Legalized Abortion and the Public Health", p.61, National Academy
of Sciences Study, 1975).

   DAMAGED CERVIX: The cervix is designed to dilate very gradually over
the course of days. In clinic abortion, the cervix is forced open in a
matter of minutes. It often tears and become weakened, causing future
miscarriages, premature births, or low birth weight babies.

   PERFORATION OF THE UTERUS: This may occur as a result of a dilator
piercing through the uterus. More serious is when the suction tube
punctures the uterine wall, requiring surgery and often a complete
hysterectomy. One specialist in abortion has observed that perforation
is inevitable if one performs enough abortions.

   PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE: After abortion, the medical personnel
must examine the fetus to make sure that no parts have been left in the
uterus. If not, infection will set in. Even if the uterus is clean,
pelvic infection is a major risk. This can contribute to sterility.
P.I.D. has become one of the leading causes of infertility in the world.

   DELIVERY THROUGH THE UTERINE WALL: The infant may be forced through
a tear in the wall of the uterus rather than through the cervix in
saline or prostaglandin abortions. This causes severe problems.

   EXCESSIVE BLEEDING, DIARRHEA, VOMITING, PAIN.

   A study in California assessing 276 prostaglandin abortions found
that 11% of the women had hemorrhaged, 34% suffered incomplete
abortions, and 1% had to be ended by hysterotomy (surgically entering
the abdominal wall to remove the infant).

   ('The Least of These', Curt Young, Moody Press, Chicago, 1984, p.86).

   LIVE BIRTHS

   Each year 40,000-50,000 abortion babies are born alive, but most die
due to a direct act or through lack of attention. ("Abortion: Ave- nues
for Action", Americans Against Abortion, Box 70, Lindale TX 75771). Of
607 2nd trimester abortions done at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Hartford,
Connecticut, 45 resulted in live births. (Prostaglandin abortion).
Although a fetus may live only a few hours, it must be pronounced dead
by a physician, must receive both a birth and death certificate, and is
sent to a funeral director for burial or cremation. A more expedient
solution is offered in the publication of the International
Correspondence Society of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (Nov. 1974): "At
the time of delivery it has been our policy to wrap the fetus in a
towel. The fetus is then moved to another room while our attention is
turned to the care of the gravida (the former mother-to-be)... Once we
are sure her condition is stable, the fetus is evaluated. Almost
invariably all signs of life have ceased."

   Hysterotomy gives the fetus the best chance for survival, but it is
allowed to die through neglect or sometimes killed by a direct act. In
1977 a Boston jury found Dr. Kenneth Edelin guilty of manslaughter for
killing the fetus of this type of abortion. Dr. William G. Waddill,
Jr., an obstetrician in California, was indicted and tried in January
1977 for allegedly strangling to death a baby born alive following a
saline abortion. The trial resulted in a hung jury when the judge
introduced new thoughts on the California definition of death. The
former mother-to-be sued for $17 million on grounds that she was not
adequately informed of the possible outcome of the abortion.

   In 1977 the medical staff at Hollywood's Memorial Hospital (Florida)
protested, "We've had preemies that have lived that were less developed
than some of these abortions were."

   ("Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" Francis Shaeffer & Dr. C.
Everett Koop, Crossway Books, Westchester, IL).

   INFANTICIDE

   Infanticide is the killing of infants, usually through lack of care.
More and more handicapped children are dying by the choice of parents
and doctors. On June 14, 1981, the Hartford Courant ran an expose
entitled "Defective Newborns Are Dying by Design" about infanticide at
Yale-New Haven Hospital. The author, Diane Brozek, explained "In some
of the cases... parents approached doctors about the possibility of
overdose. Other times... doctors suggested the option, assuring parents
they would sign the death certificate, no questions asked. The parents
ended their infants' lives with morphine or phenobarbital prescribed by
the doctors and usually dissolved in a baby bottle."

   In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (vol 289, #17,
Oct 1973, p.891) Dr. Raymond Duff and Pro. A.G.M. Campbell of Yale
University acknowledged that during the course of two years, 14% of the
babies who died in the intensive care nursery at Yale-New Haven
Hospital had died through physician choice.

   As a result of State investigation of the Yale-New Haven hospital,
many facts came to light, like the death of one Down's syndrome baby
who had been starved to death over the course of 22 days. Other parents
decided to care for their children contrary to their doctors
recommendation and found that the problems were not that bad after all.

   Headlines in the Birmingham News (Alabama, March 9, 1980) read
"Doctors Let Some Retarded Babies Die by Withholding Care." One case
reported was a child with Down's syndrome who was unable to swallow.
Routine corrective surgery was withheld. After 31 days, the baby died.

   The most widely publicized case of infanticide was the "Infant Doe"
child born April 9 in Bloomington, Indiana. He suffered from a detached
esophagus (a correctible defect) and Down's syndrome. The parents
decided to starve the child by not allowing corrective surgery or
intravenous feeding. County prosecutors and concerned citizens fought
for the child's life in courts. Over 10 families offered to adopt the
child. The state supreme court turned a deaf ear. The child starved to
death.

   To quote C.Everett Koop, "The moral question for us is not whether
the suffering and dying are persons but whether we are the kind of
persons who will care for them without doubting their worth." ("The
Silent Domino, Infanticide", printed in Congressional Record 125, July
1979).

   "How we treat these little people is not a measure of their humanity
but of OUR OWN."

   ('The Least of These', Curt Young, Moody Press, Chicago 1984,p109).

   HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION

   Private abortion clinics in England have been selling live, aborted
babies for research. Dr. Lawrence Lawn, of Cambridge University's
Department of Experimental Medicine, was quoted as saying, "We are only
using something destined for the incinerator to benefit mankind..." Mr.
Phillip Stanley, a spokesman for a clinic selling fetuses, said that
they were "aged between 18 and 22 weeks", or 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 months!

   (Handbook on Abortion, Hayes Publishing Co., Cincinnati, OH).

   Experiments are being done on live aborted babies by Finnish
researcher Dr. Martii Kekomaki. One nurse observed: "They (the doctors)
took the fetus and cut it's belly open. They said they wanted it's
liver. They carried the baby out of the incubator and it was still
alive. It was a boy. It had a complete body, with hands, feet, mouth
and ears. It was even secreting urine." The baby had no anesthetic.
Asked to explain the implications of his research, Kekomaki said, "An
aborted baby is just garbage."

   (International Life Times, 11/7/80, p.9)

   Six months after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in the United
States, Dr. Peter A. J. Adam, an associate professor of pediatrics at
Case Western University, reported to the American Pediatric Research
Society concerning research he and associates had conducted on twelve
babies (up to twenty weeks old) who had been born alive by hysterotomy
abortion. These men decapitated the babies and cannulated the internal
carotid arteries. They kept the diminutive heads alive, much as the
Russians kept dogs' heads alive in the 1950's. Note Dr. Adam's retort
to criticism: "Once society's declared the fetus dead, and abrogated
it's rights, I don't see any ethical problem... Whose rights are we
going to protect, once we've decided the fetus won't live?"

   ("Post Abortion Fetal Study Stirs Storm," Medical World News,
6/8/73, p.21.)

   Advocates of medical experimentation on the unborn argue that if
abortion be rightful, what they propose can hardly be worse than the
abortion itself. "In abortion, we condone procedures which subject the
fetus to dismemberment, salt-induced osmotic shock, or surgical
extirpation. No experimentation so far imagined would do the same. If
society can condone abortion procedures which subject the live fetus to
these unimaginable acts of violence, how can it balk?"

   (Rachal Weeping And Other Essays on Abortion, Andrews and McMeel,
Inc., a Universal Press Syndicate Co, Fairway, Kansas, 1982.)

   The Gazette du Palais, a respected French journal, reported in 1981
the import of fetal corpses. "Frontier customs men intercepted a lorry
coming from central Europe loaded with frozen human fetuses destined
for the laboratories of French cosmetics firms. ...Trade in particular
is developing between France and Great Britain where there is an
important fetal bank. ...many beauty establishments are prospering in
France thanks to the use of living cells taken from the fetus."
Blending fetal cells into skin care products helps to rejuvenate the
skin, according to the cosmetic firms. One cannot help recalling the
use of corpses by the Nazis to make everything from fertilizer to
household goods.

   (Cornerstone 2, #64, April 1983, p.22).

   FOR MORE INFORMATION

   Americans Against Abortion Box 70 Lindale, TX 75771-0070

   Christian Action Council 701 W. Broad St. Suite 405 Falls Church, VA
22046

   The Rutherford Institute Box 510 Manassas, VA 22110

   Right To Life League of So. Ca. 1616 W. 9th Street, Suite 220 Los
Angeles, CA 90015

   California pro-life legislation hotline. [phone]-VOTE

   James & Joan Werning