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As unpleasant as a step by step illustration of a late-term abortion may be, sometimes it's the right thing to do. Just as watching the removal of a lung or kidney might be unpleasant viewing material, sometimes it's necessary.
Very few abortions are performed at this late stage and almost always to save the mother from death or serious injury.
A slight nitpick: the brain has no nerve endings. It's full of neurons, yes, but there are no pain receptors (at least as far as I have heard). This screed wants us to believe that the baby can feel its brain being sucked out, which is actually impossible.
This is, I think, the only drawing of the dilation & extraction abortion that I have seen, but I've seen it around a lot. Is there a reason why the baby's body is turned? Do they do it to avoid damage to the mother?
EDIT: Yay, research is a wonderful thing! Intact Dilation & Extraction is sometimes used when the baby's head is too large to pass through the cervix. Apparently, it's not necessary to induce a breech birth, but I'm sure it's always illustrated like this to reinforce the whole frame of "partial birth" they have going on here.
He forgot the last steps:
God casts baby's spirit into the Lake of Fire because it wasn't baptised.
Mother joins the Southern Baptist Church and accepts Jesus in her heart. God forgives her, along with the fundie hypocrit who raped her and got her pregnant in the first place, and they both go to heaven, where they laugh at the baby writhing in the flames.
They forgot to illustrate the fetus's internal organs growing outside its body.
Yes, this procedure is unpleasant. It is performed because something even more unpleasant has happened with the pregnancy. A fetus too deformed to live, for example, or one that's about to kill the expectant mother.
And, highest bidder? WTF? Either someone has utterly misunderstood what stem cells are, or someone needs a tinfoil hat. (Or the ever-popular "both.")
Irene
Technically accurate up to the last caption. Since the mother's body is not actually in labor, the cervix has not dilated. The baby's head cannot pass through that opening, so its skull is evacuated so it collapses.
And yes, this is the primary method for second-trimester pregnancies in which the fetus has already died. Stem cells from such a fetus are not usually useful for anything, having been starved of oxygen for some time.
Let's review. Perform an abortion, boff the neighbor's poodle, have a couple beers. Yup, it's been a full day.
Step 7: Lacking proper brain function, the baby goes on to become a fundy and flaunts his ignorance as if it is his greatest trait.
Note: While it is possible to take the baby out completely before performing the brain sucking procedure, the athiests prefer to keep it partially inserted in order to maximize sinful contact with the woman's genitalia.
they should've talked about 2nd trimester abortions. More people have those and they're still pretty horrific (see The Silent Scream).
I'd rather not. Silent Scream isn't exactly unbiased.
This probably should not have made me giggle, but I also laugh at dead baby jokes, so there you go. *shrug*
It's difficult to be horrified by a picture like this when you know that it's horseshit. This procedure is generally only performed when the fetus has died in-utero or would die outside the womb anyway. :)
Intentional misinformation? I think so.
Stem cells are not taken from fully-developed fetuses, and definitely not the brain.
If this is supposedly an example of "typical" abortion - it's completely wrong.
And in neither case is the brain sold to the highest bidder.
This guy seems to care little for actual fact, and is just inserting his own sick delusions.
It's now possible to regenerate tissue using the patient's own Stem Cells. A process pioneered here in the UK.
You're welcome, David C. Crotch.
Better pray that one of your major organs doesn't go all FUBAR, pal...!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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