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Dateline: 1/26/00 WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT "You can observe a lot just by watching." The battle lines were drawn when a pro-life spy obtained a copy of Martin
Haskell's paper, presented at the National Abortion Federation Risk Management
Seminar in Dallas in 1992. Based on Haskell's how-to instructions, an artist to depicted the process and a public relations
campaign was launched. Supporters of abortion were outraged, and tried to claim that the diagrams
were misleading. However, when interviewed by AMA News, Haskell
called the diagrams accurate "from a technical point of view."
But he took issue with the implication that the fetuses were "aware
and resisting." Haskell was being honest when he took umbrage at the fetus being depicted
as "resisting." In his presentation to the National Abortion
Federation, he'd remarked with a chuckle that the fetus often unwittingly
"helps" by wrapping her little arms and legs around the abortionist's
hand. But Haskell also, wisely, chose not to cue AMA News in
to this little detail. However, abortion supporters siezed on the opportunity
to muddy the waters by feigning confusion over details. This very confusion should have set off alarms. Is a person too addle-pated
to understand "an abortion in which the person performing the abortion
partially vaginally delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and
completing the delivery" qualified to practice medicine at all? If
an abortionist is too easily confused to understand "an abortion in
which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally delivers a
living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery"
during calm staff meetings setting clinic policy, in consultation with
his attorneys, how is he going to interpret subtle symptoms and lab results
in the middle of a life-threatening medical emergency? Consider just three
life-threatening possible complications of late abortions: Would you really want a doctor who can't make heads or tails of "an
abortion in which the person performing the abortion partially vaginally
delivers a living fetus before killing the fetus and completing the delivery"
trying to quickly and accurately decipher your life-threatening symptoms? The truth is that abortionists, like abortion advocates everywhere,
have a very fine and subtle understanding of the issues. They're able to
manipulate this understanding masterfully when it suits them. Witness Stanley
Henshaw's deft use of language to deliberately undercount extraction abortions: As Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by watching."
For those of you with strong stomachs, let's read a transcript in which
LeRoy Carhart answers pointed questions about exactly what happens during
these abortions: Nit-picking about words ("It depends on what your definition of
'is' is.") is a favorite game of those who don't want anybody taking
too close a look at what they're actually doing. Are Carhart's abortions
"partial birth abortions?" Do you think there's any doubt in
his mind what he's doing? And is it any surprise that Martin Haskell's 10-minute video of a D&X
being performed isn't going to be on the New Release rack at Blockbuster
any time soon? D&X advocates prefer to discuss it to death, rather
than let the public watch. The testimony of a single abortionist trying
to muddy the waters clarifies more than he intends to. Visit the RealChoice blog
Yogi Berra
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