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- >From margoli@watson.ibm.com Fri Nov 20 03:20:14 1992
- Posted-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 03:14:19
- Received-Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 03:20:07 -0500
- Message-Id: <9211201121.AA0081@The-Village.watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 03:14:19
- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
- To: postmaster@ncsu.edu
- Subject: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
-
- To whom it may concern,
- Apparently someone at your site is "letter-bombing" various newsgroups
- with material previously posted to talk.abortion. This was in soc.singles,
- alt.romance.chat, and other groups. I think someone needs a talking-to...
-
- Sincerely,
- Larry Margolis
-
- >Newsgroups: soc.singles
- >Path: yktnews!admin!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!uunet!stanford.edu!rock!taco!eceyv.ncsu.edu!dsh
- >From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu ( )
- >Subject: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
- >Message-ID: <1992Nov18.173151.4801@ncsu.edu>
- >Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- >Organization: North Carolina State University
- >References: <1992Nov15.210121.18247@bnlux1.bnl.gov> <74341@apple.apple.COM> <1992Nov17.224614.9193@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
- >Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:31:51 GMT
- >Lines: 34
- >
- > "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.
- >
- >
-
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