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- From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus)
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- Subject: Description of Doug Holtsinger's remains from an Abortion
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 15:31:25 GMT
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- In-reply-to: dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 20:22:14 GMT
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- "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 Doug's remains, or products of conception
- (Doug Holtsinger), 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 Doug Holtsinger was
- indeed a sack of blood and globs of tissue, an eleven-week Doug
- Holtsinger harbored tiny arms and legs and feet with toes. At
- twelve weeks, those tiny hands had tiny nails. Although Doug's
- 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 Doug's eyes are black in the first trimester) the size of
- a pea--were sometimes found in the aftermath.
-
- Later abortions spawned even more gruesome remains of Doug.
- Between the twelfth and the sixteenth week, early in the second
- trimester, the Holtsinger 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 Doug's
- 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 Holtsinger, 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 Doug Holtsingers were hard
- enough. The counselor/medical assistants (CMAs) met regularly to
- discuss their feelings about their work, and often the discussion
- focused on Doug Holtsinger. 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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- Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
- Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
-