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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (brett mcinnes)
- Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion (was Re: DEEP SPACE 9 DRINKING GAME
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:40:06 GMT
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- dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) 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."
- :
- Hilarious? Fun? Something that certain very stupid people are obsessed
- by? What? I give up.
-