From the above mentioned website:
What does the procedure entail?
Medical experts believe the umbrella term, at least as defined in the law, could refer primarily to several surgical techniques. One is known as dilation and extraction, or D&X. Another is called dilation and evacuation, or D&E. In a regular D&E abortion performed in the second trimester, a patient's cervix is dilated and the fetus is dismembered and removed by forceps.
That is, the baby is sawn apart and removed piece by piece, with all the pieces counted afterward to make sure they got it all. Yes, one of the workers has this lovely job of counting all the arms and legs, etc.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, however, believes that bans of "partial-birth abortions'' primarily target D&X abortions, or "intact'' D&E abortions, in which a fetus' head must be reduced or crushed in order to remove it from its mother's body.
That is, the baby's skull is crushed or the brains are sucked out, while the baby is still alive, then it is removed.
How many women get D&X abortions each year?
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based reproductive health research group, estimates 2,200 D&X abortions were performed in 2000, usually during a woman's second trimester.
That's 2,200 savage and gruesome murders of little babies. I guess y'all know how I feel about this topic, and as a Christian, I follow the Bible's teachings on this one.
Here is an interesting poll I found online
Poll: Most Americans Don't Understand 'Roe vs. Wade'
Wed, Apr. 26, 2006 Posted: 11:17:07 AM EST
WASHINGTON - A national poll was released by the Real Women’s Voices coalition on Tuesday at the National Press Club, showing that although 65 percent of Americans say they are familiar with the 1973 landmark abortion case, Roe vs. Wade, only 29 percent were able to select an accurate description of the ruling.
The national survey of 1,000 adults age 18 and over was conducted by WomanTrend, a key division of the polling company inc., on Apr. 13-14.
“Roe is hanging by a thread that is increasingly being frayed by the American people’s exposure to the facts of abortion,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony List, a sponsor of Real Women’s Voices. “These numbers show that our abortion laws don’t represent the beliefs of the vast majority of Americans, including American women.”
Key findings in the poll include:
• Sixty-five percent of respondents say they considered themselves familiar (23 percent very familiar and 42 percent somewhat familiar) with the 1973 United States Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade. Thirty-one percent said they are not familiar (19 percent just a little familiar and 12 percent not at all familiar)
• Though 65 percent said they were familiar with Roe, when asked to identify which of four descriptions most accurately describes what the case provides as the law, only 29 percent selected the correct description:
- 29% Made abortion legal in essentially all circumstances throughout pregnancy
- 18% Made abortion legal but only in the first trimester
- 17% Made abortion legal but only in limited circumstances
- 15% Made abortion legal but only in the first and second trimesters
• The majority (54 percent) agreed with one of three traditional pro-life statements:
- Abortion should be prohibited in all circumstances,
- Abortion should be legal only to save the life of the mother,
- Abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life
Only 41 percent selected a pro-choice view. Notably, three-quarters of Americans (75 percent) say they believe abortions should never be allowed, allowed only in very limited circumstances, or not past the first trimester of pregnancy. The 18-34 year old group (especially 18-34 year old women) was more likely than respondents overall to identify with one of the three pro-life views of abortion.
“Not surprisingly, a majority (54 percent) of Americans do not agree with what Roe permits—that is, unrestricted abortion for any reason, even as a method of birth control,” commented Karen Cross of the National Right to Life. “And while a majority of those polled (65 percent) say they are familiar with Roe, only 29 percent actually knew that Roe made abortion legal in essentially all circumstances throughout pregnancy.”
Real Women’s Voices is a coalition of national and state-based pro-life organizations has brought women from across the country to Washington on Wednesday to lobby Congress.
"Women around the country want common-sense legislation on abortion,” said Concerned Women for America’s Wendy Wright. “We hear senators claim they want to ‘reduce the number of abortions.’ Pro-life women will be presenting the opportunity for them to prove it, telling senators to pass laws restricting abortionists from taking advantage of young women.”--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have also read the book Won by Love by Norma McCorvey, "Roe" who worked in abortion clinics for many years before becoming a Christian. It was a very disturbing book but quite informative about practices and attitudes in the pro choice movement.
"I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth--that's a baby!
I felt "crushed" under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception.' It wasn't about 'missed periods.' It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion--at any point--was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear."--Norma McCorvey, "Roe" of "Roe vs Wade" from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/598841/posts
Norma's homepage for "Roe No More" athttp://www.leaderu.com/norma/