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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT August 14, 1970 m How a Child Is Aborted (Continued from page 2) has grown too large and solid to pass through the suction apparatus. After that point curretage is generally used he continued. d A roughly instrument called the currette about ten inches long and with sharp edges is inserted into the uterus. The child inside is cut into pieces and pulled or scooped out limb by limb," Dr. Jaynes said. In order for the members to be removed, of course, the doctor must stretch the uterine opening. It'isnt dilating of its own accord as it would in a normal birth. It cant be stretched too far, however, and in order to pass larger parts like the head, they must be crushed. Some doctors use a ring forceps. After a legal abortion, in a hospital, the pieces are sent to the pathology lab for study. In illegal abortions, the most common practice is to throw the parts in a sinks garbage spoon-shape- . disposal. Curretage is rarely used after 14 weeks of pregnancy. At that stage of development a hysterotomy is used as a kind of abdominal surgery similar to Caesarean section. Technically, however, by 24 weeks you have to call it a premature birth, not an abortion. There have been instances where babies born that early have survived. I think 2 do. I know personally, in my own practice, of three babies born that early who survived to live normal lives. In abortion, of course, the premature child is not permitted to survive. As far as the childs development is concerned it, of course, varies. No two are alike. From about two weeks after conception onwards, the fetus is in almost constant motion. It can respond to moments of stress, a decrease in its oxygen for example, by moving faster. If you stick a needle into the bag of water to remove a little sample fluid and touch the baby it jumps. Eight weeks it has all its organs, legs, arms, feet, hands, ears and looks like a human being. It often sucks its thumb at this stage. There is a definite heart beat. It waves its arms and legs and, if removed from the uterus, often struggles to take a breath into its lungs. ' It answers all the ordinary criteria for life. fetus removed from the Frequently a uterus will struggle for life as long as two or three hours. It wont be too long before well be able to put the fetus in an artificial placenta and save it. Researchers have already done it with sheep. At about five months, or shortly after, the child is capable of making feeble cries. They make them when theyre being destroyed sometimes.These, obviously, are the only defense mechanisms an infant has, visibility and audibility. What about the mother in an abortion operation? An abortion is major surgery, somewhat dangerous. But the most serious danger is that of hemorrhage. Especially with curretage you run the risk of puncturing the uterus. This is a common accident in illegal abortions, performed by men who arent even doctors. There is also danger of infection, although thats lessened in legal abortions performed in a reputable hospital. But legal or illegal, statistics show it is definitely more dangerous than childbirth to the mother. To the child, of course, it is the ultimate danger death. Anyone with a basic knowledge of genetics can tell you what is1 lost by that death. You lose, irretrievably, a particular combination of genetic possibilities that will never be repeated. That combination, the individual, will never be duplicated. Its a little like witnessing the extinction of a unique species. Dr. Jaynes, a Presbyterian, was not asked to comment on the religious implications of abortion. He was asked only to relate facts, corroborated later by other physicians facts that may help clarify an emotionally clouded issue. Dr. Jaynes,' former chief of a hospital obstetrics department, is a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a member of the Michigan Maternal Mortality Review Committee. three-month-o- ld - . Order Extra Copies Of This Issue For Your Friends Utah Independent See Box Oh Page Two For Prices The 7 AMA Moves Block Leftward . (Continued from page 6) Panthers Committee sat meekly during the proceedings. One girl, after screaming (Continued from page 6) .... Americans blocking traffic, burning buildings will be in the streets Thousands of . fighting; for they will know that this is it black revolution will use sabotage in the cities knocking out the electrical power first, then transportation and guerilla warfare in the countryside in the South. With the cities powerless, the oppressor will be helpless. d In July, 1964, many of the neophytes skills in the disastrous Harlem tried out their new riots. The next month eleven of them made an unauthorized trip to Cuba (with a number of other ) to report to Williams and receive new instructions. They formed the Black Liberation Front as an adjunct of RAM and returned to the United States. Six months later several members of tbe Black Liberation Front were arrested for conspiring to dynamite the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument. v A Congressional committee identified. Robert Collier as the man who masterminded the plot. Robert Collier is free today and is a principal leader of the Black Panther Party in New York. Afro-America- ns ... RAM-traine- Cas-tro-enthusia- sts ob- scenities, demanded abortions without limitations. Signs for abortion lined the corridors. While all this was going on the House of Delegates carried on its business behind locked doors. The unprecedented isolation of the House was justified by Dr. Russell Roth, Speaker of the House of Delegates, when he said the isolation is enabling us to do our business; this is what's important. Later, in describing this event, the conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons stated in their News Letter , The wonder of it all was why the doctors would dignify such contemptible action by staying there and being a part of it. The agitators got what they hours of free telewere after vision time and the leverage to move the AMA to a more leftward position Wage and Price Controls RAM LEADERS LAY PLANS FOR BLACK PANTHER Page PARTY By 1965 there had been several successful riots in a number of key cities so that the Communist leaders prepared to lay the foundation for a program which would lead to massive revolution. In fact, Russian leaders boasted after several of these riots that the American revolution had finally begun. . (Continued from page 7) inflation goes on. Price and wage controls will not work in a free country. But to a considerable extent they will work in a slave state like Communist Russia. If this is the only way we can think of to fight inflation, that could be its result As Congressman II. R. Gross of Iowa said in the July 31 debate: No President should be delegated the awful power to take over the economy and finances of this Nation without having declared an emergency and the reasons therefor. And no Congress should delegate to the President such untrammeled power without requiring such a declaration. Following the policy laid down by Stalin forty years earlier, the U.S. Communist leaders gathered together the most radical American black leaders to set up an organization designed to force the Negro minority into the forefront of vicious revolution which would be triggered by a race war. The new organization was to abandon all pretense at integration, and demand separatism in the form of an Soviet Republic carved out of the black belt in the South. That was precisely the way General Joseph Pogany had written it up in 1928 under Stalin s direction. So by 1966 the U. S. Communist leaders decided the nation was finally ripe for the Red desolation of I am willing to give the President fire and sword. The Black Panther Party was created emergency powers, but I want him to tell the citizens of this Naas the instrument of implementation. tion that there is an emergency month: I low the Black Panthers Opetate) (Next that necessitates those powers. , all-Neg- ro This bill is a monstrosity in that it holds out false hopes to the citizens of this Nation. |