ot)). The fetus is alive and has the capacity to feel the painful abortion procedure. The US Department of Health and Human Services reported that after nineweeks unborn babies can feel pain, yet 48 per cent of all abortions are done after this point ( Fetal Development). The baby can feel all the pain put on it by the painfulprocedures. The ultra sound shows the baby struggling to survive. Abortionist doctors such as Joseph Randall admit that seeing the abortion ". . . of the baby on the ultrasound bothered me more than anything else. The staff couldn't take it. Women were never allowed to see the ultra sound" (Factbot). Women should be allowed to see this.They should see the struggling of the life they are killing. An early abortion takes about five minutes and is performed six to fourteen weeks after a woman's last period. Theprocedure is called a suction aspiration. It is like a vacuum cleaner. "'A hollow plastic tube with a sharp edge is placed into the uterus. The suction tears the baby apart,and the sharp edge is used to scrape the placenta from the wall of the uterus. Everything is sucked out into a bottle'" (Whitney 94). The other common method is dilationand curettage. "'A curette, which is a loop-shaped steel knife, is inserted into the uterus, and the baby and the placenta are cut into pieces and scraped out. Bothprocedures are usually done under general anesthesia, so they're not painful for the mother. Of course we know the child feels pain'" (Whitney 94). Another method that isnot performed much anymore is the saline injection; a long slow death process of poisoning the baby. The saline injection was developed in the Nazi Concentration Camps(Factbot) The most controversial form of abortion is the partial-birth abortion. Using an ultra sound the abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps and pulls them out intothe birth canal. The abortionist then delivers the entire baby except for the head and continues by jamming sc...
