An Abortion Doctor Gives the Details

September 12, 2009 • Christ & Culture • by
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Earlier today Zach Nielsen shared these horrific details as described by the abortion doctor who performed them. Please, set aside the propaganda for a moment and allow yourself to reflect upon what is being doing to these children – allow your heart to grieve!

Recently Newsweek magazine did a profile on abortionist, Leroy Carhart. In case you are not familiar with the specifics of what he does to these children, he describes it below:

Under oath in July 1997, abortionist Carhart comments on how he performs abortions. Here he is questioned by his attorney:

Question: Are there times when you don’t remove the fetus intact?

Carhart: Yes, sir.

Question: Can you tell me about that, when that occurs?

Carhart: That occurs when the tissue fragments, or frequently when you rupture the membranes, an arm will spontaneously prolapse through the oz. I think most…statistically the most common presentation, we talk about the forehead or the skull being first. We talked about the feet being first, but I think in probably the great majority of terminations, it’s what they world call a transverse lie, so really you’re looking at a side profile of a curved fetus. When the patient…the uterus is already starting to contract and they are starting to miscarry, when you rupture the waters, usually something prolapses through the uterine, through the cervical os, not always, but very often an extremity will.

Question: What do you do then?

Carhart: My normal course would be to dismember that extremity and then go back and try to take the fetus out either foot or skull first, whatever end I can get to first.

Question: How do you go about dismembering that extremity?

Carhart: Just traction and rotation, grasping the portion that you can get a hold of which would be usually somewhere up the shaft of the exposed portion of the fetus, pulling down on it through the os, using the internal os as your counter-traction and rotating to dismember the shoulder or the hip or whatever it would be. Sometimes you will get one leg and you can’t get the other leg out.

Question: In that situation, are you, when you pull on the arm and remove it, is the fetus still alive?

Carhart: Yes.

Question: In that situation, are you, when you pull on the arm and remove it, is the fetus still alive?

Carhart: Yes

Question: Do you consider an arm, for example, to be a substantial portion of the fetus?

Carhart: In the way I read it, I think if I lost my arm, that would be a substantial loss to me. I think I would have to interpret it that way.

Question: And then what happens next after you remove the arm? You then try to remove the rest of the fetus?

Carhart: Then I would go back and attempt to either bring the feet down or bring the skull down, or even sometimes you bring the other arm down and remove that also and then get the feet down.

Question: At what point is the fetus…does the fetus die during that process?

Carhart: I don’t really know. I know that the fetus is alive during the process most of the time because I can see fetal heartbeat on the ultrasound.

“I know that the fetus is alive…” There are no words.

Please remember that Obama is fully in support of this atrocity being fully legal.

(HT: Jeff Lewis)

Assorted Variety: 08/21/2009

August 21, 2009 • Assorted Variety • by
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Al Mohler weighs in on Kourtney Kardashian’s decision to keep her baby

As she thought about her decision, Kardashian concluded that “all the reasons why I wouldn’t keep the baby were so selfish.” She also received encouragement from her doctor. “My doctor told me there is nothing you will ever regret about having the baby, but he was like, ‘You may regret not having the baby.’ And I was like: That is so true.”

The Culture of Death looms as a massive threat, but its foundations are crumbling. Unexpected witnesses such as Sarah Kliff and Kourtney Kardashian help us to see how moral insight can emerge from unexpected experiences, reflections, and witnesses. Some of the most profound witnesses to the horror of abortion and the sanctity of human life do not even know that they are so. The evil of abortion cannot be hidden once it is seen, and a voice for life cannot be forgotten once it is heard.

You can read the rest of Dr. Mohler’s article on Rethinking Abortion here.

Tears and the Table
I appreciate Kevin DeYoung’s reflections upon his emotional response while reading through the Heidelberg in preparation for communion. Here is a brief excerpt:

What good news God proclaims to us at the Table! I fear that in most churches the Lord’s Supper is either celebrated so infrequently as to be forgotten or celebrated with such thoughtless monotony that churchgoers endure it rather than enjoy it. But the Lord’s Supper is meant to nourish and strengthen our weak faith. Have you ever come to church feeling dirty and rotten? Have you ever sat through an entire sermon thinking about how you blew it with your wife that morning or how prayerless you’ve been for the past month? Have you ever got to the end of a church service only to think, “I’m so distracted. I was worried about how I look. I can’t even sit through church right”? Have you ever wondered if God can really love you? If so, you need this gospel table.

John Piper on the Tornado in Minneapolis
John Piper shares his thoughts on the recent tornado that hit downtown Minneapolis. His interpretation of providence seems to have sparked quite a response. At the time of this posting the comment total is 478.

Addendum: Here are two new items of interest in the wake of Piper’s blog post concerning the Tornado in Minneapolis.
On John Piper and Tornadoes Sent by God
Clarifying the Tornado

The Senior Pastor Model
Stand to Reason writes about five potential liabilities of the senior pastor model in the wake of another unfortunate report of a senior pastor taken down by sin. (HT: Vitamin Z)