y is poisoned by a salt solution that is injected through the woman's abdomen into the amniotic sac. The baby is delivered, usually with an anesthetic that lessens the woman's pain to that of natural childbirth. Prostaglandin is used during the same timeframe as a saline abortion. Prostaglandin is a hormone that induces labor. In a prostaglandin abortion a synthetic version of the hormone is either injected into the amniotic sac or introduced as a vaginal suppository that causes violent labor and delivery of the baby which is usually born alive because the drug doesn't kill it in the womb. This means that once the baby is delivered it has to be "terminated" outside the womb by the doctor. During the last three months of pregnancy a hysterotomy is performed. A hysterotomy consists of the same procedure as a Caesarean section except the baby is discarded instead of being given to the mother. One half of the abortions in America occur in the first two weeks after the woman discovers her pregnancy. Ninety percent are performed during the first trimester. Less than nine percent of abortions are during the second trimester which leaves a little more than one percent of abortions that are performed during the third trimester. An important question to ask when determining whether abortion is right or wrong is "when does life begin?" Science can and does give a clear answer as to when life begins: "Scientifically, the term 'human being' signifies a complete, though not completed, living, organized, unique, individual human organism . . . The zygote [created at fertilization] fits all of these criteria. The informationally complete cell has an information content equivalent to 1000 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and unlike that of any other human being." (Scientists for Life 15) A zygote is the first complete human cell that is the result when the sperm enters the ovum. Since the zygote is a living human, and killing humans is ...
