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“ I stood at the doctor’s side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. ... ”
This is a quote from nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer who was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. She considered herself “very pro-choice” until she witnessed her first and only partial birth abortion (www. ...
Partial birth abortion was first used in 1979 has as alternative to the more usual technique for the late-term abortions, which consisted of injecting the fetus with a legal drug, extracting it and removing the limbs. ... The actual description of a partial birth abortion involves administration of medications to cause the cervix to dilate, usually over the course of several days. ... This type of abortion can be rapidly performed without hospitalization under a local anaesthetic (www. ...
Partial birth abortion is more technically known as Dilation and Extraction (D & X). Partial birth abortions are usually performed in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy. Keep in mind that in the fifth and sixth months, premature labor usually results in live birth, and after the fifth month, many born-alive babies survive indefinitely (www. ... According to pro-choice groups partial birth abortions are performed after twenty weeks of pregnancy and are only performed because the fetus has died, is badly malformed or a continued pregnancy would place the woman’s life or health in danger (www. ... According to pro-life groups partial birth abortions are done after four of five months of pregnancy and 80 percent of the babies are normal and are viable (www. ... ” Millions of Americans get the idea that partial birth abortions in the final months of pregnancy are common and easy to obtain. But, unless there is a serious medical condition, a woman’s right to choose an abortion ends at the point of viability, when the fetus is developed enough to survive outside the womb. ...
Partial birth abortions are a huge problem in society today. ... No one really knows how many abortions are done using the partial birth procedure.
Approximate Word count = 1689
Approximate Pages = 6.8
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