NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/talk/abortion/48500

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From: [e-mail] (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Description of the Fetal Remains from an Abortion
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:06:36 GMT
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Third day - third group.  Except for the fact that
the first post was somewhat different - and this one
seems to have several references hanging off of it
(see above), I'd think he'd gotten hold of my .newsrc
and had an automatic posting program posting one-a-day
down my "active" groups - although he DID miss a couple

Anyway - this was in:
Newsgroups: soc.singles
today.

(and WHERE will he show up tomorrow???)

Diana
[e-mail] ( ) writes:

]   "It was easy to shrug off an aborted pregnancy as nothing more than
]    a sack of blood and globs of tissue--as many pro-choice activists
]    did--if one never saw fetal remains, or products of conception (POC),
]    as they were known in medical circles.  But the nurses, medical
]    assistants, and doctors who worked inside procedure rooms knew
]    that while an eight-week POC was indeed a sack of blood and
]    globs of tissue, an eleven-week POC harbored tiny arms and legs
]    and feet with toes.  At twelve weeks, those tiny hands had tiny
]    nails.  Although the fetal head was too small at that stage to
]    withstand the evacuation machine's suction, pieces of face--a nose
]    and a mouth, or a black eye (all fetal eyes are black in the
]    first trimester) the size of a pea--were sometimes found in
]    the aftermath.
]
]    Later abortions spawned even more gruesome fetal remains.  Between
]    the twelfth and the sixteenth week, early in the second trimester,
]    the fetus almost doubled in length as its body caught up to its
]    large head, and it filled out to the point where it looked like
]    a human baby for the first time.  Since the fetal skull was
]    still soft, the head did not come out whole during the evacuation,
]    but the legs and arms and rib cage made it through intact.  The
]    hand of a second trimester fetus, as a Preterm doctor described
]    it, seemed big enough to shake.
]
]    Most of Preterm's abortion staff didn't volunteer to work ``seconds''.
]    Late first trimester POCs were hard enough.  The counselor/medical
]    assistants (CMAs) met regularly to discuss their feelings about
]    their work, and often the discussion focused on the POC.  Inside
]    a procedure room, facing the contents of the uterus, there was
]    no denying what abortion was."
]
]    Sue Hertz, _Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line_,
]    Prentice Hall Press, 1991, pg. 104.
]