“Your patient today is 17 years old. She’s 22 weeks pregnant,” Levatino told lawmakers. “Her baby is the length of your hand plus a couple of inches. “And she’s been feeling her baby kick for the last several weeks. She’s asleep on an operating room table.”

He then provided a step-by-step explanation of the sickening, barbaric procedure. Levatino said he’d first use a suction catheter to remove the amniotic fluid from around the baby. He then picked up a Sopher clamp and described it to lawmakers. “It’s about 13 inches long,” he said. “It’s made of stainless steel. The business end of this clamp is about two-and-a-half inches long and a half-inch wide. There are rows of sharp teeth. This is a grasping instrument. When it gets a hold of something, it does not let go.”

     A dilation and evacuation procedure, he said, is a “blind abortion.” ...“So picture yourself reaching introducing this and grabbing anything you can blindly. And pull, and I do mean hard, and out pops a leg about that big,” the doctor said, holding his thumb and forefinger a few inches apart, “which you put down on the table next to you. Reach in again, pull again, pull out an arm about the same length, which you put down on the table next to you. And use this instrument again and again to tear out the spine, the intestines, the heart and lungs.”

     “The head on the baby that size is about the size of a large plum. You can’t see it, but you’ve a pretty good idea you’ve got it if you’ve got your instrument around something and your fingers are spread about as far as they go. You know you did it right if you crush down on the instrument and white material runs out of the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. Then you can pull out skull pieces.” Levatino closed by saying, “Sometimes a little face comes back and stares back at you. Congratulations. You have just successfully performed a second-trimester D&E abortion. You just affirmed her right to choose.”  

What Really Happens in the 4 Most Common Abortion Procedures - By BRIAN GOTTSTEIN/LIVE ACTION "This unique window into the womb dispels the myth that abortions remove 'clumps of cells,' and instead shows that they kill real children with beating hearts and forming brains at just 3 1/2 weeks gestation," Live Action president and founder Lila  Rose said.

“What is Abortion?” The new videos feature innovative and realistic animations, and the videos are narrated by four female doctors who previously worked as abortionists. Drs. Noreen Johnson, Beverly McMillan, Kathi Aultman, and Patti Giebink walk viewers through the devastating reality of abortion in the videos. The doctors narrate — respectively — the chemical, aspiration (D&C), dilation and evacuation (D&E), and induced abortion procedures. Additionally, they give viewers information on fetal development at the stage of pregnancy during which each type of abortion typically takes place.  

Research Institute Publishes Trove of Facts About Abortion  ...Rigorously documented with more than 600 footnotes, this go-to resource contains direct quotations from medical textbooks, peer-reviewed journals, legislative records, and other primary sources. In brief, it places a goldmine of provable facts at readers' fingertips. It also covers shocking facts about late-term abortions and live births that the media and politicians have routinely failed to report. For those seeking facts about the presidential candidates' positions and voting records on abortion, this research provides transparent, thought-provoking coverage.

Pro-Life Videos Garner 85 Million Views - by Jerry Newcombe Note: the following column contains some sensitive material. Reader discretion is advised.  ...Support for abortion can be undercut when people learn what an abortion actually is. An enterprising young pro-life woman, Lila Rose, is working hard to solve this problem. She and her team at liveaction.org have been producing powerful online videos to educate people as to what actually happens in an abortion. The videos are going viral in a major way and are receiving tens of millions of views.  ...I had the privilege this last weekend to hear Lila Rose as she addressed the Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. (put on by Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council). She spoke about their latest video project and its incredible viewership.  ...The video project can be found at www.abortionprocedures.com. What the abortionists do in secret, Lila Rose aims to shout from the housetops.

Just the Facts: Be informed: Comprehensive and meticulously documented facts about abortion. Learn about the science of human development, women’s health, politics, taxpayer funding, parental consent, and more.

A Live Action Video: Baby Olivia - Never-Before-Seen Look at Human Life in the Womb From a single-celled human to a baby with a beating heart, brainwaves, fingers, and toes, Olivia shows the remarkable beauty of a unique life within the womb.   

Scientists Confirm Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions - ...The title of a new academic paper says it all: “Reconsidering fetal pain,” by two well-credentialed medical professionals, Stuart Derbyshire and John C. Bockmann. The article is an honest, objective review of the scientific literature as it relates to the question of whether and when a child still in the womb can experience pain. Looking at the scientific evidence again with unbiased eyes, the authors’ answer was “yes,” perhaps as early as 12 weeks, and certainly after 18 weeks.

   Derbyshire and Bockmann also reviewed the evidence for experiencing pain as it relates to any need for the cortex, or any psychological processes to “interpret” the pain signal. Their objective, balanced reading of the evidence pointed to pain experience without the need for the cortex (similar to the undisputed pain experienced by animals), mediated by other neural structures.

"Medical" or "Chemical" abortion

Pro-Choice Is a Misnomer - By Jerry Newcombe .... Pro-choice is a misnomer. Those who are pro-choice are in reality pro-abortion. ...OB-GYN Ingrid Skop, M.D.,: “A majority, around 60%, said their preference would have been to give birth had they received more emotional support or had greater financial security….In another 2023 peer-reviewed survey, 61% of women reported “high levels” of pressure to abort.”

   ... Jim Harden, the president of Compass Care: “It is telling that a recent study revealed that nearly 70% of women are coerced to abort their babies….When a woman faces an unplanned pregnancy, she considers abortion because she feels trapped… like she has no choice. Mercenary abortionists masquerade as medical professionals to profiteer from this tragic reality” ...Harden continues, “Yet pro-life pregnancy centers help a woman with everything but abortion…for free. Pro-life pregnancy centers are the abortion industry’s only competition, delivering up to 2 million women nearly $358 million worth of free medical care and support every year. And while pro-abortion politicians get re-elected on the coat tails of abortion propaganda, it is the pro-life pregnancy centers that are empowering women with true informed consent and support.

   ...OB-GYN Vivina Napier, M.D. said recently: “In my years in practice, I have never met a woman who has expressed regret over giving birth to her baby, but I have met plenty who shared their regret for having abortions.”

‘Devastating’ and ‘Tragic’: Study Finds Higher Rates of Suicide Attempts for Post-Abortive Women - By Sarah Holliday - ...Left-media have cited certain studies claiming over 90% of women don’t regret their abortions, yet experts analyzing the data argue the evidence is clear: Higher Rates of Suicide Attempts for Post-Abortive Women. ...Among women with a history of abortion, 35% of them had attempted suicide. Even women who did not have abortions but lost their babies due to miscarriages or problematic pregnancies had suicide attempt rates of roughly 30%. Notably, the research found that women who were coerced into having abortions had the highest rates — 46% of whom tried to end their own lives. Only 13% of women who had successful deliveries with no abortions, miscarriages, or problems within the pregnancies were found to have made suicide attempts — the lowest rates among all surveyed women.

‘I Regret It Every Day’: Survey Reveals the Extent of Post-Abortion Trauma -By Ben Johnson - ..."I regret it every day and cry about it often," said another woman one year after deciding to oversee her abortion at home. Far from making her feel independent, she said the overwhelming emotion she felt—and still feels—is "helplessness." Her words echo too many other women who took the two-pill regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol, called a "medical" or "chemical" abortion to distinguish it from surgical abortion.

     "[I] just feel bad. I let it bleed out of me like nothing," said one woman. One-third of women (34%) who had a chemical abortion "reported an adverse change in themselves, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and thoughts of suicide."

     "I felt like I didn't deserve to be a mom. It got to the point where I wasn't eating. I couldn't go to work. I couldn't watch my kids," said Chantal Gates in her book, "Unraveled Roots: Exposing the Hidden Causes of Damaging Behaviors," published in 2020. "I couldn't believe I had done this to a child I actually cared about and wanted."

     At least one post-abortive woman committed suicide, and seven died of overdoses/drug-related deaths, after undergoing a medical abortion, according to FDA data. Barely of the 26 known deaths related to medication abortion (54%) between 2000 and 2019 came from natural causes. But the number may be far higher, as researchers say the results are often miscoded as a miscarriage.

     Others still remembered the pain of going through contractions alone in a bathroom. "They said minor discomfort. It was horrible. Physically and emotionally," said a woman who ingested the deadly medical cocktail. "It was 100 times more painful than [I was] told. It took over 12 hours to completely expel the tissue. It was so much more traumatic than a surgical abortion, which I had once before," said another.