Many people wonder what abortion is and how it is preformed. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy that can either be spontaneous or induced. Spontaneous abortions are often called miscarriages. An induced abortion artificially ends the pregnancy. In my opinion, it is the killing of an innocent child. The baby is a human being from the moment of conception. Ten days after conception the baby has planted itself in the walls of the uterus and stops your menstrual flow. When the one cell it is made from has the Forty-Six chromosomes, it is unique from that moment on. Twenty-Six days after conception the heart is already beating, probably pumping a different blood type then your own, forty Days after conception doctors have recorded brain waves. If you touch a fetus child on his nose at this point his reflex's come into play and he will jerk his head back as any child would. You can also see little arm buds at this time. By the eighth week you can even hear the baby's heart beat with an ultrasound stethoscope. In abortions done after this time, you can definitely see identifiable body parts. Second, abortion it isn't just another form of contraception. Contraception is preventing a pregnancy from occurring. Abortion is the taking of a life after it has already started. Depending on how far the pregnancy has advanced will determine the method used.
             One method of Abortion is Partial Birth or Dilation & Extraction (D&E). The procedure is as follows: While only the babies head is in the uterus, the body having already been delivered, the abortionists lifts the cervix and applies pressure to the babies shoulders with the fingertips of the left hand. Then blunt, curved metzenbaum scissors are forced into the base of the skull. The scissors are spread apart to enlarge the opening. A suction catheter now evacuates the skull contents. The body is then removed. This is preformed after thirty-tw
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