Your baby's lungs are filled with amniotic fluid, and he has started to practice breathing movements. If you talk or sing, he can hear you. A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus. After the bimanual examination, the physician removes the basin from beneath the patient's perineum and replaces her feet on the pull-out leg support. At this point, I move around the table to face the patient, to inform her that she is no longer pregnant and to reassure her.
Many patients are prepared to cry.
In most cases, the calvaria has been collapsed but is basically intact. It is placed under running water and, as the water fills the cranium, a biparietal measurement is taken by sight with a clear plastic ruler. The information above is not that of any pro-life organization. Medical textbooks such as Hern's Abortion Practice did not exist prior to Roe v. Wade. Thus, it is more than probable that recent ultrasound, embryoscopy, and other technology would assist the Supreme Court in understanding that they have engaged our nation in a holocaust of unprecedented magnitude.