Fr. Frank Pavone: Read It For Yourself
Every pro-life activist should have on his or her desk the book by abortionist Warren M. Hern called Abortion Practice. It is a medical textbook on how to do abortions, and it provides us with the educational material necessary to win the war on abortion - namely, the descriptions of the abortion procedures. So many argue about abortion, having never heard a description of what it is. Take, for example, the abortion procedure called Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E). Through this procedure, the child is dismembered within the womb. Hern describes the procedure at various stages of pregnancy, starting at 13 weeks. I quote here from the section "21 to 24 Weeks Fetal Age": "The procedure changes significantly at 21 weeks because the fetal tissues become much more cohesive and difficult to dismember. This problem is accentuated by the fact that the fetal pelvis may be as much as 5cm in width. The calvaria [head] is no longer the principal problem; it can be collapsed. Ot...