Abortion: How It's Done

One thing I have always found odd about the abortion issue is that there is so much argument about this act that many people have never personally witnessed. It's hard to have an intelligent discussion without defining your terms. What does an abortion look like? How is it done?

In the following short videos, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life uses plastic fetal models and actual surgical tools to demonstrate how an abortion is done, according to readily available medical textbooks. What he shows is disturbing but not graphic. (If you want to see the real thing, here is a link to some actual photographs of aborted babies. Not for the squeamish.)

If we're going to talk about abortion, let's make sure we know what we're talking about.

This is a dismemberment abortion:




This is a suction abortion: