The Earliest Abortions:

Chemical Abortions: The Pill, RU486, methotrexate, Norplant, IUD’s, prostaglandin’s, and Depo Provera all cause early abortions. You may not be aware of the fact that the Pill has a "back up" abortifacient action that works to kill a baby very early in its development if ovulation occurs and conception takes place. With some of the new "mini-pills," scientific research shows that ovulation takes place in 67-81% of the women who use these "birth control pills." For more info see Birth Control.

Dr. Ronald Chez, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), publicly stated that the new Pills of today, with their lower estrogen dose, allow ovulation up to 50% of the time! It is estimated that Chemical "Contraceptives" cause between 7 to 12 million early abortions each year in America (Source: Study of Abortion Deaths Ad Hoc Commission 1995). Most women using the Pill (and other "birth control" methods listed above) do not know they can become pregnant and have early abortions.

Morning After Pill: You may not realize it, but the "Morning After Pill" is just a high dose of the Pill. It does cause some of the earliest abortions and it is not risk free. Do not use this method without understanding what you are doing. Often, there is already a genetically complete growing human being inside a woman when she takes this pill. Visit Pregnancy: The Final Frontier and read about a teen who nearly took this but couldn't get it. Today she has a beautiful son who she loves more than anything.

First Trimester Abortion Procedures:

Suction Abortion: Used during the first three months of pregnancy - A suction tube (29 times stronger than a home vacuum cleaner) with a knife-like edge is inserted into the womb. The powerful suction tears the baby apart limb from limb and sucks it from the womb along with the placenta. The baby's remains are deposited into an attached waste bottle. (Very convienent, yes?)

Dilation and Curettage (D&C): Used at the end of the third month of pregnancy (approximately 12 weeks) - The cervix is dialated, ring forceps are inserted into the womb and the baby is extracted piece by piece. Then a curette (a sharp knife in a loop shape) is inserted and used to scrape away any of the baby or the placenta that remains. Profuse bleeding follows. (Sometimes blood transfusions follow as well.)

Second Trimester Abortions:

Dilation and Extraction (D&E): Used after 13 weeks - The cervix is dialated and the unborn child is dismembered with plier-like forceps. Force is needed to pull the baby apart. The instrument is used to seize a leg or other part of the body and then, with a twisting motion, tear it from the baby's body. The baby's spine is snapped and the skull crushed. After the baby parts are removed, they are reassembled outside the womb to be sure all are removed. Risks include baby parts being left inside the mother's womb. This can cause serious complications and sometimes death.

Saline amniocentesis: A concentrated salt solution is injected with an amniocenteses needle into the amniotic fluid. The baby breathes and swallows it and dies over an hour later of acute salt poisoning. The mother then delivers a dead burned baby someimes after feeling the baby convulse, jerk and kick for at least an hour as he dies. Use has declined because of dangers for the mother and sometimes the baby survives. (Emotional trauma is a big risk for this one.)

Third Trimester Abortions:

Partial-Birth Abortion: Partial-Birth Abortions are used from the 4th month through the end of the 9th month of pregnancy. These late-term abortions are regularly used to kill healthy babies that pose no danger or threat to their mother.

For this abortion, the abortionist uses ultrasound to locate the unborn baby's legs. Forceps are then used to pull the baby's legs through the birth canal, delivering the baby feet first, except for the head. Scissors are then used to puncture the base of the back of the head. A suction device is then inserted to suction out the baby's brain so the skull will easily collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, along with hundreds of physicians and the Physicians' Ad Hoc Coalition for Truth (PHACT) said that this "procedure" is never necessary to save the life of the mother. (emphasis mine)

Dr. Nancy Romer, FACOG, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Miami Valley Hospital in Ohio said, "People deserve to know that the partial-birth abortion is never medically indicated either to save the health of a woman or preserve her future fertility."

Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortionist who specializes in these late-term abortions, has admitted to performing over 1,000 of these abortions. He stated in a recorded interview with the American Medical News (the official newspaper of the AMA) that: "In my particular case, probably 20% (of these procedures) are for genetic reasons. And the other 80% are purely elective." That means in 80% (that's over 800 babies) there was no health risk for the mother and the baby had no handicaps.

It has been documented that thousands of these abortions are performed each year. A New Jersey newspaper reporter with the Bergen County Record discovered and reported that 1,500 babies are killed each year by partial-birth abortion at one New Jersey "Hospital" alone.

Prostaglandin: Used late-term - Prostaglandin is injected into the amniotic sac causing premature labor and delivery of a dead baby. Use of this has dropped signifigantly because of the risks to the mother.

Inter-cardiac injections: Poison is injected into the chest or heart of the fetus via a long needle inserted through the mother’s abdomen. The dead baby is absorbed. Sometimes this results in the loss of all the babies when using this method for "pregnancy reduction" with multi-fetal pregnancies. This is the procedure that the mother or the septuplets refused to have done.

The Earliest Abortions:

Chemical Abortions: The Pill, RU486, methotrexate, Norplant, IUD’s, prostaglandin’s, and Depo Provera all cause early abortions. You may not be aware of the fact that the Pill has a "back up" abortifacient action that works to kill a baby very early in its development if ovulation occurs and conception takes place. With some of the new "mini-pills," scientific research shows that ovulation takes place in 67-81% of the women who use these "birth control pills." For more info click here.

Dr. Ronald Chez, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), publicly stated that the new Pills of today, with their lower estrogen dose, allow ovulation up to 50% of the time! It is estimated that Chemical "Contraceptives" cause between 7 to 12 million early abortions each year in America (Source: Study of Abortion Deaths Ad Hoc Commission 1995). Most women using the Pill (and other "birth control" methods listed above) do not know they can become pregnant and have early abortions.

 Q. Will it hurt?

A. Yes. You must expect discomfort and even pain from these prcedures. You have to understand that these procedures involve forcing open your tightly closed cervix (the opening to your uterus) which is painful. It's the same thing your body naturally does to give birth only it is forced into doing it with chemicals and tools.

Q. It doesn't even look like a baby, right?

A. Most agree that by 8 weeks (the time the majority of the earliest abortions are performed) he or she definitely looks like a baby. She has tiny fingers and tiny toes, her heart is beating regularly, her eyes, ears and mouth are forming and she already has at least the beginning of every body part and every organ and system she will ever have. More info on prenatal development with beautiful pics.

Q. Are there any long-term psychological effects?

A. Yes. While the statistics vary from 5% to at least 80%, most everyone from prochoice to prolife agree that there are some long term effects for some women. These include depression, nightmares (women who wake up thinking they're hearing their babies scream), anger, guilt, anniversary reactions (women who can't stand it when the abortion anniversary or their babies due date rolls around; in milder cases they experience depression and in rarer more severe cases they become suicidal) and a whole lot more. There is a diagnosable syndrome called Post-Abortion Syndrome that has been compared to Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome experienced by many war vets. These negative reactions occur in different amounts and at different levels and times. One woman may have an abortion and be fine for ten years and then all of the sudden break down. One might never break down and one may be traumatized from that point forward. A lot of it seems to depend on whether or not the woman honestly felt she had a real choice and wether or not it went against her personal morals or religion.

Q. It is at least physically safe, right?

A. No. Truthfully, there are risks unique to abortion. Even when you cross a street there is risk involved and it's very unrealistic to believe that a medical procedure wouldn't carry risk as well and a lot more of it. The physical risks include: profuse bleeding to the point of needing a transplant, permanately scarred uterus resulting in infertility, a perforated uterus requiring surgery, infection from body parts left inside, a higher chance of miscarriage, blocked fallopian tubes resulting in a higher chance of ectopic pregnancy, any where from a 10 - 30% higher miscarriage rate in following pregnancies, Rh sensitization jeopardizing future pregnancies, a 7 to 15 fold increases in placenta previa (when the placenta blocks the opening of the uterus) in future pregnancies. Death is of course a complication which many feel has been grossly under-reported. The main causes of death from abortion are from infection, hemorrhage and uterine perforation.

These are all true, real complications that the abortionist and nurses should tell you about but don't simply becauses this is the only medical procedure not required by law to explain the risks to the patient before hand. One more note, many people say that these complications are incredibly rare if they indeed exist at all but unfortunately, there is much evidence to the contrary which you can find all over the web and other places. Check it out for yourself.

Q. Is it a baby?

A. Yes. He or she is a baby and is alive. Brainwaves are detectable by 40 days and REM sleep patterns (indicating dreams) have been documented by the second trimester. S/he has all of the body parts and possibilities of a newborn s/he is only smaller and premature. A fetus is a baby like a toddler is a child and an adult is a human. Fetus and embryo are terms that indicate a stage of development not the attainment or lack of humanity. It certainly isn't a fish or a monkey, it is a human baby. The blueprints of a house will never turn into a house but from conception on a baby is a baby and continues to grow and develop until death. That would be where both of us came from. I am a product of conception just like you and everyone else who lives and breathes. While we're talking about it, we are also blobs of tissue. We're just bigger.