Lately, it seems that one of the big issues in the pro-life movement is the partial-birth abortion. What exactly is a partial-birth abortion?
Dilation and Extraction (D&X) abortions or late-term abortions (performed in the late stages of pregnancy – the third trimester) are commonly referred to as partial-birth abortions. Partial-birth means that the baby is already partially delivered or born when he is aborted. The baby is pulled out of the mother all the way up to his head. The abortionist then takes a pair of scissors and jams them into the base of the baby’s skull. The abortionist spreads the scissors apart, making the hole wider. A vacuum tube is inserted into the baby’s skull, and the brain is removed. The skull collapses, and the dead baby is removed completely. Partial-birth abortion is better termed “infanticide,” the killing of an infant. A baby at 24 weeks is able to survive outside of the mother’s womb, and late-term abortions are performed on babies beyond that point, sometimes at 32 weeks or more!
