Elimination Nation
...uction-Aspiration and the Dilation and Curettage (D&C) methods. In the Suction-Aspiration method, a plastic tube with a knife-like edge on the tip is used to destroy the fetus, which is then removed by suction (Willke 1-2). The suction machine is twenty-nine times more powerful than a home vacuum cleaner (Willke 2). The Dilation and Curettage method is similar to the suction method except that a curette or looped shaped knife is used instead. The fetus is then cut into pieces and scraped out into a bowl or basin (Willke 2). In the second trimester, the procedures include the Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) and the Saline Amniocentesis. In the Dilation and Evacuation procedure, the baby is dismembered. The legs, arms, and other parts are ripped from the body with the aid of a pliers-like tool (Willke 2). The fetus is not given any anesthesia. Annually, one hundred thousand procedures of the Dilation and Evacuation abortions are preformed resulting in five hundred women with major complications (Willke 2). The Saline Amniocentesis procedure contributes to the fetus’s death by acute salt poisoning. Subsequently, a day later the women will deliver a dead baby (Willke 2). During the third trimester, abortions are preformed on fetuses that could survive outside of the womb. Approximately eighty percent of these aborted fetuses are of normal condition (Willke 3). The procedure most often used in the third trimester is the partial birth abortion, also called brain suction or Dilation and Extraction (D&X) procedure (Types 2). These abortions involve partial birth of the baby prior to beginning the abortion. The baby is delivered feet first with the head remaining inside the woman. Scissors are thrust into the back of the skull, the brain is sucked out, and the dead baby’s head is then delivered (Willke 3-6). This is the most controversial procedure due to the viability of the baby. It is easily anticipated that with the need for numerous and variable methods for abortion procedures, that the demand for abortions is high. Annually, in the United States 1.3 million fetuses are aborted (Stats 2). This is more than eleven times greater than the accumulative total number of Americans that die from automobile accidents (40,000), suicides (30,000), homicides (25,000), accidental falls (12,000), poisonings (6000), and drowning (4000) (qtd. in Stats 2). “Abortion deaths each year outnumber American casualties in all of our wars combined” (Stats 1). Forty million fetuses have been aborted in the United States from 1973 through 2000 (Stats 1). As expected, with this high number of abortions annually, the reasons given for having an abortion are diverse. Reasons given for abortions are varied with seventy percent of the women intent on having children in the future (Stats 3). Some of the reasons given for having an abortion include: interference of a child with work, school or other responsibilities, the high cost of a child, and concerns over single parenting (Stats 3). Single women are six times more likely to have an abortion than married women are (Stats 3). Only one percent of abortions are ...