2nd-trimester abortion help(Researchers Kill 110 Babies to Determine Which 'Device' Works)

Health24 (HealthDayNews) ^ | 4/10/2003

[truthandlife]

A low-tech, hand-held vacuum aspiration device works as well as a more expensive electrical unit for ending second-trimester pregnancies, say researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. They compared the two devices while performing second-trimester abortions on 110 women with an average gestation of 16 weeks. Manual vacuum aspiration was used on 73 women and electric vacuum aspiration on 37 women.

No difference in procedure time The study found no significant differences in procedure time between the two groups of women. There were no reported complications.

Manual vacuum aspiration is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for first-trimester abortions, but had not been tested for second-trimester abortions.

Good news for developing nations Now that we know the low-tech device is safe and effective, it can be taught to doctors in developing nations to help reduce the prevalence of unsafe abortions and complications, senior author Dr Paul Blumenthal, associate professor of gynaecology and obstetrics, says in a news release.

The electrical aspiration devices and the power required to operate them are often not available in developing countries. - (HealthDayNews)

[fortaydoos]

Unlike the national leadership of the Republican party?

Republican control of the White House, Congress and the S.C. and absolutely NOTHING is being done about ending this American holocaust.

[Ferret Fawcet]

I couldn't even get through the first paragraph before I was overcome with cold chills. This is Evil.

[ravingnutter]

Yeah, just like Laura Bush and Condi Rice are "trolling about" the White House.

Oh please...they have nothing whatsoever to do with policy concerning abortions, your comment is ridiculous.

[Skooz]

This reads very much like the dispatches from concentration camps where "medical experiments" were conducted on prisoners.

But, this isn't 1944. This isn't Poland or Germany.

God help us.

[Dionysius]

Depravity.

[BibChr]

Schwarzenegger is a slight improvement on the status quo, and is no worse than McClintock in his planned changes; but his position on abortion is wretched. It is a pity he's our best choice, but there it is.

Dan

[truthandlife]

The scary thing about it is they are not even concealing it. Go to #16 and you will see that Johns Hopkins puts this article out as a press release. If you want tell Hopkins how you feel, I left the phone # and email of the person in charge of this press release on #16.

[BMiles2112]

Yeah, just like Laura Bush and Condi Rice are "trolling about" the White House.
Laura Bush is in the White House due to an election by the people, Condi by appointment. FR is a conservative site. There is nothing conservative about being pro-choice. Now there are a few here, possibly you?, that try to be both conservative and pro-choice. I can't see how the two can be reconciled.

[KarlInOhio]

Forget about IgNoble prizes and Darwin Awards. Someone needs to organize a Dr. Megele award for the most horrifyingly immoral medical research for the year. This would be in the lead right now.

[truthandlife]

It is a pity he's our best choice, but there it is.

It is past time for Christians in America to wake up and repent of political idolatry! God is not Republican or Democrat! His will is not subservient to their pundits; neither is His power dependent upon their success at the polls! As John Quincy Adams said, "Duty is ours; results are God's." It is not our duty to win elections. It is not our duty to "get a seat at the table." It is not our duty to elect "conservatives." Whether we win or lose, whether we sit at the table or eat on a blanket in the back yard, whether we receive any phone calls from the White House or not, whether conservatives control Congress or not, our duty is to be faithful to the truth and leave the results with God! The choice, then, seems obvious. In the name of "pragmatism," we can continue to sell our souls to partisan politics, or we can stand for the truth and put our hope in God. It seems to me the former is not taking us where we ought to go. Maybe we should try the latter.

[BMiles2112]

I does look like we may get the partial-birth ban passed. It's not going to make a huge difference, people will find ways around it, but it's in the right direction.
I agree with you though. We should be in a much better position than we are considering we've got republican control of most of the gov't.

[montag813]

Researchers Kill 110 Babies to Determine Which 'Device' Works

But make sure to only buy products that bear the sentence: "NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS"

[waRNmother.armyboots]

"There were no reported complications."


Except for the death of the infants. Sick.

[montag813]

"electric vacuum aspiration"

[DittoJed2]

You're invited to http://www.abortiondebate.org

[BibChr]

I've already responded, in a long essay.

No baby is saved by a self-serving, hollow gesture. If we don't get at the table, we don't affect the table.

Dan

[truthandlife]

Good site. We just need to make more people on FR aware that it exists.

[DittoJed2]

I agree! Good article by the way. I posted it on that site too.

[truthandlife]

I do know you are a "brother in Christ," we just agree to disagree on this issue.

[BibChr]

<< I do know you are a "brother in Christ," we just agree to disagree on this issue. >>

As the kids say, I am totally "down wid dat."

(c8

Dan