What Abortionists Have Said:

What Abortionists Have Said:
“there is no possibility of denial of an act of
destruction by the operator [of a D&E abortion]. It
is before one’s eyes. The sensation of dismemberment
flow through the forceps like an electric current.”
Dr. Warren Hern, a Boulder, Colorado, abortionist who has
performed numerous D&E abortions and has written a
textbook on abortion procedures
“Tearing a developed fetus apart, limb by limb, is
an act of depravity that society should not permit.
We cannot afford such a devaluation of human life, nor the
desensitization of medical personnel it requires. This is not
based on what the fetus might feel but on what we should
feel in watching an exquisite, partly formed human being
being dismembered.”
Dr. George Flesh, former abortionist
A common and brutal form of abortion.
Dismemberment abortion is the barbaric killing of a human
being. It is the method used for practically all secondtrimester abortions in Kansas.*
This abortion method has been described by the U.S.
Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart as a procedure that is
“laden with the power to devalue human life.”
It is as brutal, if not more so, than partial-birth abortion.
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The tiny hand of an unborn child.
The fully-formed foot of a
14-week-old unborn child.
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Dismemberment is used to
abort unborn children as old
as 24 weeks. Forceps with
sharp metal jaws are used to
grasp parts of the developing
baby, which are then twisted
and torn away. This continues
until the child’s entire body
is removed from the womb.
Because the baby’s skull
has often hardened to bone
by this time, the skull must
sometimes be compressed or
crushed to facilitate removal.
An unborn child at 20 weeks post-fertilization. Research continues to
accrue showing the unborn child not only feels pain at 20 weeks, but
that she may well have the necessary physical “wiring”[structures] at 13
weeks to feel the excruciating pain of being ripped apart.
Babies killed by dismemberment
abortions are well developed.
3-4 Weeks: the baby’s heart begins its first beats.
6 Weeks: she has detectable brain waves and a
complete skeletal system.
7 Weeks: complete fingers, toes, and ears.
What the Supreme Court Has Said:
United States Supreme Court Justice Kennedy has described the
gruesome nature of the most common abortion technique used in
the second trimester, dilation and evacuation, in terms that make
clear that it would be extremely painful:
“[F]riction 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.”**
8 Weeks: all organs are formed and functioning.
Justice Kennedy used even more graphic descriptions of D&E
abortions in his dissent in Stenberg v. Carhart stating:
By 20 Weeks: the unborn child has hair, working
vocal cords, sucks her thumb, grasps with her
hands, and can feel pain.
“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult
or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from
limb from limb.”***
* Doctors on Fetal Pain: The Basics. Web. December 18, 2014 http://www.doctorsonfetalpain.com
* Warren M. Hern, M.D., Abortion Practice (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1984), pp. 153-154.
** Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124, 135 (2007)
*** Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914, 958-59 (2000) (Kennedy, J., dissenting)