I used to have some hangover from boyhood notions that war was a gallent, heroic affair. Me, I saw myself as a Focke Wulf 190 pilot, defending the motherland (and thereby protecting to-die-for Pauline O'Connor who lived up the road in No. 42) from the bestial daylight attacks of the enemy (I know the Nazis were wrong now but then the Krauts made the most beautiful aeroplanes)
That was until I saw the opening 20 mins or so of Saving Private Ryan and got a glimpse of what war was actually about. Not so as to disturb the discussion but to remind what is actually being discussed here.
From rR's link a number of posts ago. This is one of a number of procedures which is used depending on the stage of the abortion.
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Dilation and Evacuation (D&E): within 13 to 24 weeks after LMP
This surgical abortion is done during the second trimester of pregnancy. Because the developing fetus doubles in size between the thirteenth and fourteenth weeks of pregnancy, the body of the fetus is too large to be broken up by suction and will not pass through the suction tubing. In this procedure, the cervix must be opened wider than in a first trimester abortion. This is done by inserting laminaria a day or two before the abortion. After opening the cervix, the doctor pulls out the fetal parts with forceps. The fetus' skull is crushed to ease removal.
http://www.optionline.org/abortion.html
Do people really see the crushing of a foetus' skull roughly along the same lines as they do a mousetrap hammer popping the eyes out of the sockets of those pesky mice that invade the house every fall?
For my own part, I think the movement towards trying to limit people to sex within the confines of marriage is a misguided one and would be a demonstration of Christians (if that is what they indeed are) getting it totally arse about face. It reeks of the same self-righteousness of those who would hang homosexuals up by the testicles.
What a world....
This message has been edited by iano, 26-Mar-2006 10:55 PM
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