Pathologists traumatized after finding eyeballs of aborted babies: They stare right at you

In 2013, LifeNews ran an article with quotes from pathologists who examined the bodies of babies killed in abortion. The quotes in the article came from a forum sponsored by the Student – Doctor Network (SDN), a nonprofit organization that supports medical students. The SDN has a number of forums where people with different levels of education in the field of medicine can discuss issues with colleagues. There are forums for premed students, forums for medical students, and forums for established practitioners. In the “Pathology Forum” under “Physician/Resident Forums,” a pathologist posted a message for his peers about dissecting aborted babies.

If an abortion facility is following medical guidelines, it must send fetal remains to a pathology lab to be examined. (Sometimes abortion facilities do not do this, and instead simply dump fetal remains.) The examination is meant to double check that all the parts of the baby’s body have been removed and that nothing has been left behind. If any part of the baby is left in the uterus, it can cause a severe infection. Abortionists check aborted babies (or “products of conception,” as they call them) visually, but a pathologist’s examination is needed to rule out the possibility of an incomplete abortion.

The pathologist who started the discussion, whose posts are quoted in their original form without grammatical corrections, wrote about how examining the remains of aborted babies upset him:

Another pathologist responded:

Pathologists are accustomed to examining body parts and organs, but apparently, seeing the mutilated bodies of aborted children is deeply troubling to some of them. Abortion procedures are violent, regardless of how early they are committed. Dr. Anthony Levatino describes a D&E abortion, typically committed between 13 and 24 weeks of pregnancy:

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

The second pathologist also said:

The way the age of an aborted baby is determined is by measuring the length of one of the baby’s feet. This is sometimes done in abortion facilities; other times, it is done by pathologists. Also note that in some cases the sex of an aborted baby can be determined just by looking at the remains of the child.

A third pathologist said:

Histopathology is the practice of taking a slice of tissue from a specimen and making a slide that is then examined under a microscope. The slide itself is called a histology block or a tissue block. The pathologist is describing how he prepared a slide of the baby’s hand and then examined it under a microscope. Although the pathologist may have found it a learning experience, the technician that was working with him was very upset.

A preborn baby at just 12 weeks is fully formed. He or she has had a beating heart for nine weeks. The brain is giving off brainwaves.  The baby responds to touch and pressure and shows a “startle response” when he or she is touched.  The baby is already right or left handed – embryologists have observed preborn babies favoring one hand over another as early as eight weeks.  A female preborn child at 12 weeks already has a uterus and ovaries of her own. The baby has fingerprints which are unique and different from any human being who has ever lived or ever will live.

Baby Development Week by Week

The pathologist also said:

If the pathologist is unable to find part of the baby, that might be a sign that the abortion was incomplete.

The third pathologist was also troubled by examining the eyes of aborted children:

The original poster then said:

One pathologist had no sympathy for the aborted babies and was not horrified by what he saw:

Another pathologist describes something that happened to him before medical school:

From the poster’s description, we can’t know for sure whether the baby was stillborn or died in abortion. Yet it is sad that the remains of the child were simply discarded with the medical waste. The way the baby was disposed of shows a lack of respect for the lives of children in the womb.

It is clear that abortion is different from ordinary medical practice. Pathologists don’t complain about how disturbing it is to examine a removed gallbladder or tumor. But, as one poster said, dissecting aborted babies is “nothing that med school prepares you for.” These pathologists’ stories are just more evidence of the horrific nature of abortion.