Abortionist Dennis Dean-Christensen
Q. Are you aware that we stipulated that during a suction curettage procedure sometimes no fetal parts come out through the cannula during suction and that the doctor then goes in with forceps to remove parts?
A. Yes, I'm aware of that.
Q. At that point when the suction has been used but no fetal parts have come out and the doctor goes in with forceps is the fetus alive?
A. Based on our definition, yes.
Q. And when will the fetus die in that scenario?
A. Well, sometime between that point and when we complete the procedure.
Abortionist Harlan Raymond Giles
THE WITNESS. The fetus in the suction D&C is much smaller, generally less than 12 weeks of gestation, and the fetus either in whole or in part passes through the plastic cannula … and then goes into a suction machine where there's a gauze bag that then traps the fetal structure and the placental structure as well.
Q. What kills the child in the suction curettage abortion?
A. The complete separation of the fetus and the placental tissue from the maternal uterine surface. It totally disrupts the vascular connection and that results in death.
Q. Okay. Can the heart of a fetus or embryo still be beating during a suction curettage abortion as the fetus or embryo comes down the cannula?
A. For a few seconds to a minute, yes.
Click to listen to the heartbeat of an unborn child at 9.5 weeks; 11.5 weeks; 15 weeks; 26 weeks; 32 weeks (All ages noted here are LMP; therefore the baby's age from fertilization is actually two weeks younger than the number. These heart tones were recorded through a Doppler speaker by a pro-life doctor, Dr. David M. Ramsey, III.)
Abortionist Martin Haskell
THE WITNESS: I've performed approximately or greater than 40,000 suction curettage abortions. Roughly, you know, 10,000 D&E abortions. After the 20th week I've performed approximately 5,000 abortions, about 3,000 of them being D&E and about 2,000 of them being the intact variety of D&E.
Q. When you perform an abortion by the suction curettage method does it ever happen that a portion of the fetus is extracted from the uterus while the fetus is still alive?
A. Yes.
Q. And how does that happen?
A. Well, when we do a suction curettage abortion, you know, roughly one of three things is going to happen during the abortion. One would be is that the catheter as it approaches the fetus, you know, tears it and kills it at that instant inside the uterus. The second would be that the fetus is small enough and the catheter is large enough that the fetus passes through the catheter and either dies in transit as it's passing through the catheter or dies in the suction bottle after it's actually all the way out.
Now on any given procedure does a surgeon know precisely which of those three possibilities is going to occur, the answer is no. But is it my intent that one of these three possibilities will happen with each given patient, then the answer is yes.
Q. And when you perform an abortion previability are you concerned with the point in the process when the fetus dies?
A: Generally no, because it doesn't add anything medically to the safety or care of the woman that's being taken care of.
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http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/medical/suctionexplanation.htm