ABORTION WARS:WHY THE CONTROVERSY?

A fifteen-year old girl from southern Texas sits on a hard wooden table, alone. She is wearing nothing and quite nervous. After a moment, the ?doctor? comes in and instructs her to lie down and open her legs. He then thrusts a sharp instrument inside her vagina and jaggedly scrapes the lining of her uterus and pulls the resulting pieces out of her vagina. The ?pieces? are chunks of a first trimester fetus. It looks roughly like pieces of uncooked hamburger, raw and red.
The person who performed this procedure was unlicensed and untrained. It was highly likely that fragments of the instruments that he used for the procedure would be left inside this young girl?s vaginal cavity. There was a chance that this young girl would be one of the estimated 8,179 abortion related deaths in 1936 in the United States (Gorney 23).

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