The student had heard the pro-choice movements slogans. He took them at face value, believing that the unborn baby was a mass of cells and not an individual human being. He felt that a woman had the right to control her body and did not sympathize with the tiny baby inside her. He did not believe in the childs humanity or right to life.
Then he took the opportunity to see an abortion performed. Because of his pro-choice beliefs, he did not expect to be disturbed by anything he would see:
This summer, I was accepted into a pre-medical program in NYC in which we are allowed to shadow doctors and see all sorts of medical procedures. When given the opportunity to see an abortion, I did not hesitate to accept the offer. It was something new, edgy, and exciting that I had never seen.
He then describes exactly what he witnessed in the operating room:
When I entered the operating room, it felt like any other I had ever been in. On the table in front of me, I saw a woman, legs up as if delivering a child although she was asleep. Next to her was a tray of instruments for the abortion and a vacuum machine for suctioning the fetal tissues from the uterus. The doctors put on their gowns and masks and the procedure began. The cervix was held open with a crude metal instrument and a large transparent tube was stuck inside of the woman. Within a matter of seconds, the machines motor was engaged and blood, tissue, and tiny organs were pulled out of their environment into a filter. A minute later, the vacuum choked to a halt. The tube was removed, and stuck to the end was a small body and a head attached haphazardly to it, what was formed of the neck snapped. The ribs had formed with a thin skin covering them, the eyes had formed, and the inner organs had begun to function. The tiny heart of the fetus, obviously a little boy, had just stopped forever. The vacuum filter was opened, and the tiny arms and legs that had been torn off of the fetus were accounted for. The fingers and toes had the beginnings of their nails on them. The doctors, proud of their work, reassembled the body to show me. Tears welled up in my eyes as they removed the baby boy from the table and shoved his body into a container for disposal.
Since this abortion was done by suction, the baby must have been less than 13 to 14 weeks, but still far enough along that his humanity was evident.
Abortions in the second trimester are usually done through dilation and evacuation, a procedure in which forceps are used to tear apart the baby, rather than through suction.
The student was haunted by what he saw:
I have not been able to think of anything since yesterday at 10:30 besides what that baby boy might have been. I dont think that people realize what an abortion actually is until they see it happen. I have been tortured by these images so real and so vivid for two days now
and I was just a spectator.
Never again will I be pro-choice, and never again will I support the murder of any human being, no matter their stage in life.
Unlike the vast majority of abortions, this baby was mourned. Someone felt sadness and horror at his death. Thousands of babies like him are suctioned out of their mothers wombs every day. They are rejected by their mothers and regarded as medical waste by their killers. Society allows these babies to die silently, with no recognition or acknowledgment of their humanity. This little baby boy will never have a name. He will never take a breath of air, never pet a dog, never watch a sunset, never ride a bike
He will never experience all the things that you and I take for granted. But this baby, perhaps, did not die entirely in vain his tragic death revealed the truth to this young man. And those of you who are reading this article now know about this babys death.
I hate bras.lol Men see us and are more vocal about using us as sex objects and unlike pre movement, women are more than happy to oblige. All you have to do is listen to one of the kids songs to figure that out. Sure more women go to college, but the school curriculum has been dumbed down so much, is she really getting a better education? The only thing that has come from the movement is better contraception but it would appear from this thread that today's women are woefully uninformed about it. Then of course there are the so called feminists themselves. Steinem and her ilk are dinosaurs still stuck in 1973 and hell bent on making sure women don't progress. Yup pretty much a major fail. We need another and better womans movement cause the last one missed the mark.
