Abortionists describes abortion of 13 week old unborn baby
By Sarah Terzo
12 weeks. A week younger than the baby being aborted
An 18-year-old with braces on her teeth
is on the operating table, her head on a plaid pillow, her feet up in
stirrups, her arms strapped down at her sides. A pink blanket is draped
over her stomach. She’s 13 weeks pregnant, at the very end of the first
trimester. She hasn’t told her parents.
A nurse has already given her a local
anesthetic, Valium and a drug to dilate her cervix; Harrison prepares to
inject Versed, a sedative, in her intravenous line. The drug will wipe
out her memory of everything that happens during the 20 minutes she’s in
the operating room. It’s so effective that patients who return for a
follow-up exam often don’t recognize Harrison.
3d sonogram at 13 weeks
The doctor is wearing a black turtleneck,
brown slacks and tennis shoes. He snaps his gum as he checks the
monitors displaying the patient’s pulse rate and oxygen count.
“This is not going to be nearly as hard as you anticipate,” he tells her.
She smiles wanly. Keeping up a constant
patter – he asks about her brothers, her future birth control plans,
whether she’s good at tongue twisters – Harrison pulls on sterile
gloves.
“How’re you doing up there?” he asks.
“Doing OK.”
“Good girl.”
Harrison glances at an ultrasound screen
frozen with an image of the fetus taken moments before. Against the
fuzzy black-and-white screen, he sees the curve of a head, the bend of
an elbow, the ball of a fist.
“You may feel some cramping while we suction everything out,” Harrison tells the patient.
13 weeks
A moment later, he says: “You’re going to hear a sucking sound.”
The abortion takes two minutes. The
patient lies still and quiet, her eyes closed, a few tears rolling down
her cheeks. The friend who has accompanied her stands at her side,
mutely stroking her arm.
When he’s done, Harrison performs another
ultrasound. The screen this time is blank but for the contours of the
uterus. “We’ve gotten everything out of there,” he says.
Stephanie Simon “Offering Abortion, Rebirth” The Los Angeles Times 29 November 2005.Editor’s note. This appeared at clinicquotes.com.
Source: NRLC News
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