Late Term Abortion -Testimony of a Doctor

As a trainee doctor I had to watch a late abortion. The girl, we were told, was pregnant through no fault of her own. Possibly she didn’t know that sex was all about making babies. The operation was full of euphemisms. At no point was the victim identified as a baby and only once as a foetus. Reference was made to ‘stopping the heart’ as if the heart didn’t belong to anyone. At no point was it mentioned that the baby was being killed or was dead. In fact the dismemberment was carried out with the heart still beating because it took too long to stop. The ‘contents of the uterus’ were extracted – arms, legs, torso and a head like a cracked egg dripping white brains. The ‘products of conception’ were then checked and the procedure deemed successful. This is not what I signed up for. I want to help heal, not kill. Instead of talking about abortion it would be more honest to say ‘killing unborn babies’ because that is what happens.

Dr Norman Kerr, London, UK
From The Times Reader Comments
April 13, 2007