Nurse quits after witnessing baby being dismembered in D&E procedure

Registered nurse Brenda Pratt-Shafer worked in a late-term abortion facility for three days. Horrified by what she saw there, she quit. Now Pratt-Shafer has written a book about her experience working in the abortion industry. “What the Nurse Saw,” released in 2016, contains graphic descriptions of abortion procedures. One abortion method Pratt-Shafer describes in detail is a D&E dismemberment abortion.

Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino speaks about this type of abortion in the video below. Using illustrations, he shows how the abortionist dilates the woman’s cervix overnight with laminaria sticks, then dismembers the baby the next day:

2nd Trimester Surgical Abortion: Dilation and Evacuation (D & E)

Brenda Pratt-Shafer was pro-choice until she witnessed actual abortions. She endured the added trauma of seeing D&E abortions on ultrasound screens. She describes the first D&E she witnessed:

The next step was to suction out the amniotic fluid with a plastic cannula. This is the same instrument used for earlier abortions. In first-trimester abortions, the suction generated by the suction machine pulls the baby through the cannula into a glass jar. The baby is often torn to pieces in the process.

After the amniotic fluid was removed, the abortionist started to dismember the baby:

At the time D&E abortions are performed (generally in the second trimester), the baby is fully formed. She has all her body parts and all her internal organs.

Pratt-Shafer witnessed the moment the baby died. Since the baby had already suffered a torn off arm and leg by the time his heart stopped beating, the child must have felt excruciating pain. The baby was still aware enough to try to get away from the abortion instruments, even when partially dismembered. It’s also notable that the life-or-death struggle on ultrasound was hidden from the mother. Had the mother known that her baby was going to be violently dismembered, she may have never consented to the abortion. The abortionist was careful to hide the truth from the woman. In fact, she may not even have known that her baby had a heartbeat.

Pratt-Shafer watched the other parts of the baby being extracted:

The final step in the abortion was finding and crushing the baby’s head:

After seeing several of these abortions, Pratt-Shafer observed that the fetal head could be crushed or could come out in pieces.

What Pratt-Shafer witnessed over the course of those three days in the abortion facility was brutal beyond description. Through writing her book, she hopes to teach others what goes on beyond the closed doors of abortion facilities. Because the killing of babies like this is done in secret, few people realize that these horrible murders are taking place legally in the United States every day.

Source: Brenda Pratt-Shafer, David Shafer What the Nurse Saw: Eyewitness to Abortion (Mustang, Oklahoma: Tate Publishing & Enterprise, LLC, 2016) 34-35