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- Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
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- In article <1992Nov18.173151.4801@ncsu.edu> dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu ( ) writes:
- > "It was easy to shrug off an aborted pregnancy as nothing more than
- > a sack of blood and globs of tissue--as many pro-choice activists
- > did--if one never saw fetal remains, or products of conception (POC),
- > as they were known in medical circles. But the nurses, medical
- > assistants, and doctors who worked inside procedure rooms knew
- > that while an eight-week POC was indeed a sack of blood and
- > globs of tissue, an eleven-week POC harbored tiny arms and legs
- > and feet with toes. At twelve weeks, those tiny hands had tiny
- > nails. Although the fetal head was too small at that stage to
- > withstand the evacuation machine's suction, pieces of face--a nose
- > and a mouth, or a black eye (all fetal eyes are black in the
- > first trimester) the size of a pea--were sometimes found in
- > the aftermath.
- >
- > Later abortions spawned even more gruesome fetal remains. Between
- > the twelfth and the sixteenth week, early in the second trimester,
- > the fetus almost doubled in length as its body caught up to its
- > large head, and it filled out to the point where it looked like
- > a human baby for the first time. Since the fetal skull was
- > still soft, the head did not come out whole during the evacuation,
- > but the legs and arms and rib cage made it through intact. The
- > hand of a second trimester fetus, as a Preterm doctor described
- > it, seemed big enough to shake.
- >
- > Most of Preterm's abortion staff didn't volunteer to work ``seconds''.
- > Late first trimester POCs were hard enough. The counselor/medical
- > assistants (CMAs) met regularly to discuss their feelings about
- > their work, and often the discussion focused on the POC. Inside
- > a procedure room, facing the contents of the uterus, there was
- > no denying what abortion was."
- >
- > Sue Hertz, _Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line_,
- > Prentice Hall Press, 1991, pg. 104.
- >
-
- You know dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu that was beautiful also. I think it would be
- a little more appropriate and make more of an impact on
- alt.romance.chat. Hey, it's a suggestion.
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