Witnesses to abortion: There is no doubt abortion kills a human being

I look inside the bucket in front of me. There is a small naked person there floating in a bloody liquid.

Sometimes authors of magazines are allowed to witness abortions in the course of writing articles. Sometimes medical students who never had an opinion on abortion come to grips with the procedure after viewing one. People who observe abortion procedures or abortion remains usually come away with little doubt that abortion is killing a human being.

Author Verlyn Klinkenborg of Harper’s Magazine visited an abortion facility for a 1995 article. After viewing the remains of an abortion at ten weeks, he wrote the following (1):

Author Sue Hertz spent a year observing in a busy abortion facility. She saw the remains of several abortions (2):

Dr. Anthony Levatino, former abortionist, describes what happens during a second trimester abortion.

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

A writer from the Wisconsin State Journal shadowed an abortionist as he performed abortions in his facility. He says (3):

Peter Korn, who wrote a book about the ironically named abortion facility “Lovejoy,” describes an abortion this way (4):

Pro-choice author Magda Denes witnessed abortions while writing her book In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death Inside an Abortion Hospital. She was disturbed by seeing the intact body of a baby aborted in the second trimester (5):

B.D. Colen, a reporter for Newsday, witnessed a second-trimester D&E abortion (5). A D&E is the standard second-trimester abortion and is performed over 300 times a day:

An author from Salon Magazine describes two abortions. One was a D&E (pictured below), the other a partial birth abortion, a procedure that is now illegal due to the efforts of pro-lifers.

He says of the D&E (6):

A former medical student writes the following (11 weeks, so a dilatation and suction) (7):

The author goes on to describe nightmares he had about the abortion. Now he is a pro-life activist.

These men and women have witnessed the horror of abortion firsthand, and none of them emerged from the experience the same.

Some, like the medical student, became pro-life. Others, like Magda Denes, were able to rationalize their experience and remain pro-choice – but they would always understand the reality behind the rhetoric.

The vast majority of us have never seen an abortion – but we can gain wisdom from those who have. Abortion is a terrible, violent procedure that kills a baby. No amount of sugar-coating can banish that reality. Those of us in the pro-life movement must continue on, knowing we are fighting a battle against the most important human rights injustice of our time.

1. “Violent Certainties” Harper’s Magazine January 1995 p 47
2. Sue Hertz Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion’s Front Line (New York: Prentice Hill Press, 1991) p 104
3. “Women Need Control over Birth Choice, Physician Says” Wisconsin State Journal. March 4, 2001. Quoted by Life Dynamics.
4. Peter Korn Lovejoy: A Year in the Life of an Abortion Clinic (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996) pgs 235-236
5. B.D. Colen “A High, But Necessary, Toll” Newsday May 12, 1992
6. Margaret A. Woodbury, “A Doctor’s Right to Choose” Salon Magazine July 24, 2002
7. Don Haines “The Day I Became Pro-Life” Oct. 30, 2002