Chapter 2: The Procedure Of Abortion

In the United States, the late term abortion procedure, Dilation and Evacuation, inhumanely terminates the unborn human fetus and causes harmful side effects to the woman. The medical procedure has been legalized although the actions performed during the process raises ethical concerns for the way the physician executes the fetus.

How would you feel if someone took away your ability to live? Imagine not having any say in whether or not you want to have a life. Well babies don't have a choice in their mother’s womb. If a woman decides to abort her baby, they can't do anything about their life being taken away from them. Their whole future is demolished. I believe abortion is wrong when committing it for a selfish reason.

A man by the name of Jean Paul Sartre once said “We are our choices”, but what if one’s choice is predetermined or determined by someone else? What are our choices then? What determines a choice to be right? These are questions that arise as a result of the term ‘choice’. Throughout history there have been a number of choices that people have had to make, one of which deals with the topic of abortion and how different cultures perceive them in contrast to others. According to Merriam Webster, Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy followed by the death of the embryo or fetus. This essay will introduce and identify Abortion in terms of its controversy in its morality, differences in ethical cultures, and the views of past societies versus the present.

This paper will explore the number of abortions being performed, why they are being performed and, also should it remain legal to have an abortion? In 2013 over 664,000 legal abortions was reported to the CDC from 49 different areas. In 2013 the abortion ratio was 12.5 per 1000 women. (Abortion Surveilence 2013, n.d.) In 2013 health research funding reported that lest than 1% of these abortions were due to rape or incest. Now if we just sit back and look at these numbers they are astounding. That is 664,000 lives took with someone else deciding their life.

Even though Janet Haris directly says it’s right to have an abortion, the writer clearly attempts to say if a teenager or women isn’t ready to be a mother she should feel relief to redeem of unborn babies. The viewpoint of her readers through the use of loaded words while she adamantly states that women don’t need the experience of being a mother to an early age, or if the baby has health conditions and isn’t born yet she can make the choice to aborted. Many teenage girls who become pregnant an early age, and make a decision to have an abortion have better chances to succeed in life. Janet says, “many teenage girls or women won’t have to raise their child alone, or become a single mother. This idea, however, falls short, as Janet Haris,

In the article Ethics of Abortion, much of the pro life argument seems to be

What are partial birth abortions? A partial birth abortion is a procedure in which the abortionist pulls a living baby feet-first around 5-6 months gestation out of the womb and into the birth canal; however leaving the head lodged just inside the cervix. The abortionist will then puncture the base of the living baby’s skull with a surgical instrument, they then suction out the baby’s brain with a powerful suction machine; which causes the collapsing of the skull and the death of the baby, making it possible for the abortionist to complete the delivery of the now dead baby. (Partial-Birth Abortion Q & A, n.d.)

First off, a miscarriage can happen and that is all natural for a woman. There are two different drugs women can take in the United States that they can take before nine weeks of pregnancy are up. The first one, Methotrexate, is injected into the women and the embryo’s cells stop dividing and does not develop any more. The second pill is Misoprostol. This one is inserted by the women at home, then within a couple days, the womb contracts from her. After a week, the embryo comes out of the women. There are also other methods, which can happen up to 13 weeks of pregnancy. The first method is called the “vacuum aspiration”. This one is pretty self-explanatory; the vacuum is put into the uterus and with a little pump the embryo come out of the uterus and then into the tube. From weeks 13 to 19, there is a more surgical procedure known as “dilation and evacuation”. The mother receives a light drug then the embryo is removed by forceps; then the doctor uses the vacuum to clean out the rest. If a woman is to have an abortion from 20-24 weeks, the doctor gives a drug to the mother then that makes her go into premature labor. The heart stops beating and she has the baby (Bacon 22,23).

Partial-birth abortion is the procedure in which the abortionist intentionally pulls the baby out the womb, feet first. During this procedure, the baby’s head is purposely left in the womb, in which the doctor then ruptures the baby’s brain using a long pair of scissors, suctioning it’s brain causing the skull to collapse. Resulting in the abortionist now delivering a completely dead baby.

Today, I am going to be discussing a topic that is quite controversial. Abortion is a lawful procedure that allows you to legally dismember and terminate your pregnancy. If you are familiar with the process of this hanus medical act you can see why and many want to stop it.

The suction then tears the baby’s body into pieces, the placenta is cut and everything is sucked into a bottle. The third way is, Dilation and Curettage, this type is kind of similar to Suction-Aspiration, and the only things that are different are that the doctors use a looped-shaped knife. The baby and the placenta are cut into pieces and then scrapped into a basin. Usually bleeding occurs really heavy in this type of abortion for a few months. The next type is Dilation and Evacuation, this type is usually done after the third month of the pregnancy. The cervix must be dilated for the abortion; this is usually done with a laminar stick. A pliers-like instrument is then inserted through the cervix into the uterus, the abortionist then seizes a leg, arm or other part of the baby with a twisting motion, tears the limb from the baby’s body, this continues until all is gone except for the head, then the skull is crushed and pulled out. The Fifth type of abortion is Prostaglandin abortion; this is where, Prostaglandin the hormone that induces labor, is injected into the female. The baby usually dies from the trauma of the delivery but if not, they watch the baby on the ultra sound machine; then they shoot the hormone into the unborn baby’s heart. The last type is Dilation and Extraction, this type of an abortion is used on mid to late term babies, four to nine months, an

At this point in the pregnancy the baby is almost fully developed. This procedure takes a few days to complete, the first step is for the abortionist to inject a drug called digoxin into the baby’s head, torso, or heart. The high dose of the drug will cause the baby to going to cardiac arrest and die. The next step is to slowly dilate the woman’s cervix over a period of two to three days, the whole time the dead baby is still inside. The woman may go into labor and be unable to make it to the clinic she will then give birth into the toilet and the abortionist will come to clean it all up after. If she can make it to the clinic and she will deliver the dead baby, however the baby may not come out in one piece. In the case the abortion will become a D&E (3rd Trimester Induction Abortion: Injection and

Also another procedure performed at the clinics is called partial- birth abortions. The definition of a partial birth abortion is a procedure of a living baby, whom is feet- first and all except for the head. Then, the head is punctured and the clinic removes the baby’s brain. Finally, the skull collapses and a dead- baby would be delivered. An Article titled Facts of Partial- Birth Abortions claims that, “these partial- birth abortions are performed 3,000- 5,000 annually”. The numbers of times partial- births are being used are rare, but they still do occur. There also was a Partial- birth abortion act stated by Facts of Partial-

This usually occurs during the second or third trimester. The cervix is dilated for the entry of surgical forceps (AbortionTV). The fetus is partly pulled though the vagina in a breech style. The legs of the fetus are hanging out of the womb. The doctor forces the scissors into the back of the head and spreads the scissors to increase the wound size. A suction cup is held over the fetus’s head as the brains are sucked out (AbortionTV). The body is removed and the womb is cleaned of any other birthing particles. The partial abortion procedure can have fatal side effects such as infection of the cervix, excessive bleeding of the womb, chances for the mother to be fertile decreases, and causes scarring of the uterine wall. Medical experts thought the fetus couldn’t feel the pain of the scissors going through its head but, they were wrong. Studies show that it can feel the pain three to five times more than an adult that would experience it (AbortionTV). The tiny fetus’s are sedated and numbed up so the won’t feel the intense pain.

Abortion has been around since a lot of years in every inhabited corner of the globe. It has always been accepted as a means to prevent the suffering of both woman and potential child. It has been practiced widely in every society for many reasons including famine, war, poverty, overpopulation, or simply because a woman felt she was not ready for a child (Whitney 40). No one ever questioned a woman’s right to this procedure till the 1800’s. During this era of change people began to turn their attention in a new direction, the fetus. They began to protest abortion as cruel, inhumane, and murderous. Abortionists who were once revered and depended upon were scorned and threatened. Though abortions still happened with regularity, they were kept silent and seen as a matter of shame. “Over the next hundred years, public sentiment for fetus continued to rise until the inevitable happened in America during the early 40’s; Abortion was made illegal.” (Cohen 17). The pro-life supporters had succeeded in saving the lives of innocent babies who would have been slaughtered for the convenience of selfish, ignorant and irresponsible women. This new law had made women actually settle down and raise families or give birth to beautiful children. We all know that, it has been proven time to time throughout history that the human spirit will not allow prohibition. Something inside us feels the need to strike out at that, which restrains us and holds us from the