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Woman Tells TV Show About Horrible Abortion Experience

Woman Tells TV Show About Horrible Late-Term Abortion Experience

Dickerson indicated the abortion would be a five-day process and that Tiller's staff inserted a laminaria to dilate her for the abortion. "On the third day, Tiller came in and injected into the amniotic sac saline solution which suffocated and burned my baby to death," Kelly said. She described an assembly-line abortion process in which, on the fifth day, women are herded into a room and told to lie down on beds. Tiller's staff would go down the line of women checking which ones are dilated enough to have the abortion and take them in to complete it. Dickerson told Fox News that the final part of the abortion process consisted of going into a bathroom and leaning on a nurse as she delivered her dead baby into the toilet. She said the only two times she ever saw Tiller was when he injected the saline solution and after she gave birth to her dead child. "This is all very graphic but I think it's important that people know what's going on in our country," Dickerson told host Bill O'Reilly.
Indeed shocking. The truth hurts.

Posted December 14, 2006 by Christopher Gillespie 
Dec 15, 2006
Jason Evans Groth said...
Fox news sucks and Bill O'Reilly is a terrible human being. Maybe he should have some torture victims on to describe their experiences at the hands of his sanctioned Republican government. The truth hurts.
Dec 15, 2006
Jason Evans Groth said...
Ok, perhaps that was a tad reactionary. Let me put it this way -- Fox News, as all media outlets, is certainly not "fair and balanced." Bill O'Reilly, a sinner like the rest of us, is a sensationalist. He is quick to point out problems with late term abortions but will not talk about the cruelty that his conservative brethren in the government continue to impose upon innocent adults. The woman in question -- was she forced to have an abortion? Certainly it was a terrible experience, but was she forcibly tied down, tortured, etc.? If she was, then yes -- horrible. If she wasn't, then it is her choice and she must deal with the consequences. But the truth is that abortions happen, are necessary sometimes, and are unneccesary sometimes. They will happen legally or illegally and should remain legal for those people who, perhaps, do not believe they are a sin, or who believe that people should have control over their own bodies, or what have you. The truth is also that people are terrible and will kill other adults, with families, for reasons of war, politics, and the like. But the point is, all of us live with the consequences of our actions. If I willfully go and buy heroin it's not the dealer's fault -- they're the dealer, that's what they do. Unless they force me to buy or do it, it is not their fault. The same is true with an abortion doctor. The same is not, unfortunately, true, for victims of an injust war, say, or torture victims that are the victims of people who don't believe rules should be followed.

Just my $.02 or $.05 or whatever.