Wednesday, September 14, 2005

The gory details of partial-birth abortion

I just discovered (even though they probably did this a while ago) the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have posted the transcripts of the hearings on the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. The transcripts include days of testimony in the spring of 2004 by abortionists regarding how they perform abortions.

The transcript from the New York trial includes Judge Richard Casey's probing questions of abortion providers regarding how they describe the procedures to women and if they discussed the possibility of fetal pain. I'm just posting a few quotes but there are so many more that show the moral depravity of individuals who perform abortion and the outrageous and almost incomprehensible evil of this procedure.

On day three (pg. 467), Judge Casey asks Dr. Timothy Johnson, a professor at U of M's medical school and abortionist, to describe the instrument used to crush the partially-born child's skull.

THE WITNESS: It would be like the end of tongs that are combined that you use to pick up salad. So they would be articulated in the center and you could move one end, and there would be a branch at the center. The instruments are thick enough and heavy enough that you can actually grasp and crush with those instruments as if you were picking up salad or picking up anything with --
THE COURT: Except here you are crushing the head of a baby.
THE WITNESS: Correct.


On day six, (page 120) Dr. Marilynn Fredriksen admits that she uses her fingers instead of scissors to help collapse the child's skull.

COURT: Ma'am, I didn't ask you that. Very simply I asked you whether or not do you tell the mother that one of the ways she may do this is that you will deliver the baby partially and then insert a pair of scissors in the base of the fetus' skull?
THE WITNESS: I have not done that.
THE COURT: Do you ever tell them that after that is done you are going to suction or suck the brain out of the skull?
THE WITNESS: I don't use suction.
THE COURT: Then how do you remove the brain from the skull?
THE WITNESS: I use my finner (sic) to disrupt the central nervous system thereby the skull collapses and I can easily deliver the remainder of the fetus through the cervix.

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