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Abortionist: showing abortion diagrams is effective because abortion isn’t “pleasant”
LIVE ACTION NEWS ^ | Nov 30, 2014 | Sarah Terzo

Posted on 11/30/2014 7:26:18 PM PST by Morgana

Dr. Suzanne Poppema, abortionist and author of the book Why I Am an Abortion Doctor, said the following:

Abortion procedures are not aesthetically pleasant…There’s no question about that. You think these pictures the anti-abortion forces show in Congress are bad? I think if you started showing pictures of `normal’ [abortion] procedures, with forceps, those would be equally effective.

Stephen Chapman “Is Partial Birth Abortion Really so Awful?” Chicago Tribune March 23, 1997 p 23

She is referring to the diagrams of a partial birth abortion that pro-lifers circulated in order to convince legislators and the public to oppose this method of abortion. To the left you can see part of the five panel diagram. As you can see, these abortions were done by pulling the baby partway out of the womb, then sticking scissors into the back of the neck of the 3/4ths delivered baby, suctioning out the brain and crushing the skull. The dead baby was then removed and disposed of.

These horrific abortions were finally banned in 2003 when then-President Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act into law. The Supreme Court, overturning a previous decision, upheld the ban in 2007. And, in fact, the majority of Americans opposed partial birth abortion. The diagrams did a good job of convincing the public.

Susan Poppema is making the point that just about ALL abortions are gruesome and difficult to stomach. And she may well be correct spreading diagrams of them will again effect public opinion.

Below is a diagram of an abortion with forceps, or a D&E. It is the most commonly used method of second trimester abortion and is sometimes done even in the third trimester, although by that point the baby is difficult to tear apart. You can read more about this technique here. PICTURE ON LINK

You could say that a D&E abortion is even more brutal and painful to the baby than a partial birth one.

Poppema is an abortionist who is willing to admit that “normal” abortion procedures are just as violent and disturbing as the now-banned partial birth procedures.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; clinicquotes; prolife
isn’t “pleasant”

Got out my Thesaurus AGAIN....

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any of these words do the job????

1 posted on 11/30/2014 7:26:18 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

If losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to you, what’s so great about abortion?


2 posted on 11/30/2014 7:35:29 PM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Morgana

Abortionists gruber their clients. Keep them uninformed about the procedures and get it done before they can say no.


3 posted on 11/30/2014 8:00:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

And they do it violently too.


4 posted on 11/30/2014 8:05:41 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Morgana; All
In Dante's Inferno a number of the damned are punished by perpetually suffering as the victim the pain they meted out as the evil doer. It would seem not inappropriate for such a ‘doctor’ to suffer perpetually as a ‘late term fetus’ being subjected to having its brains suctioned out.
5 posted on 11/30/2014 8:27:10 PM PST by robowombat
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To: Morgana

Abortionist: showing abortion diagrams is effective because abortion isn’t “pleasant”

Especially if you are the one being aborted. Wouldn’t this also apply to torture, Hitler’s death camps, the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment?


6 posted on 11/30/2014 8:32:53 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Morgana
I've read that Dr Mengele once said that some aspects of *his* work were also “unpleasant”.
7 posted on 12/01/2014 7:59:06 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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