By Dave Andrusko
Two days ago, I wrote about “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,” the annual March 10 celebration/exaltation/glorification of a business that traffics in the fear of panic-stricken women and the blood of over a million unborn babies each year.
To the abortion crowd, it makes perfect sense to especially praise those hardy souls who, specializing in performing late, late abortions, plow through any sense of…discomfort.
Eventually, they reach a kind of Nirvana, as did abortionist Christine Henneberg. Henneberg started out with some qualms but, once she got the hang of it, ended up writing, “I’d found the thing I was good at, even gifted at.”
But by comparison to Shelley Sella, Henneberg is practically David Livingstone. Sella has spent the last year touring the country touting her book, Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care. In a way that make sense only to the mind saturated in abortion speak, Sella brags that she is “the first woman to openly practice third-trimester abortion care in the U.S.”
Along the way, she no doubt compared notes with the likes of fellow abortion wizards Susan Robinson, Warren Hern, and LeRoy Carhart. Sella, who is (thank goodness) now retired, was featured in the 2013 documentary “After Tiller,” a rogues’ gallery of late-late-term abortionists portrayed as white knights.
You come away with a very different impression, however, if you catch them in a moment of candor. In one undercover video captured by the Center for Medical Progress, Robinson spoke about committing late-term abortions.
“The fetus is a tough little object, and taking it apart, I mean, taking it apart on day one is very difficult,” she said in the first clip, and in the second, added, “You go in there, and you go, ‘Am I getting the uterus, or the fetus? Oh good, fetus. [stabbing sound effect] What have I got? Nothing. Let’s try again.’”
Obviously, no one can possibly know the grisly reality of second and third trimester abortions better than the abortionist him or herself. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino has testified before the House of Representatives and told the House Judiciary Committee that he had performed (what an odd word) nearly 1,200 abortions, both first and second trimesters.
As Dr. Levatino told the committee
The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby’s head. The head of a baby that age is about the size of a large plum and is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. You can be pretty sure you have hold of it if the Sopher clamp is spread about as far as your fingers will allow. You will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull pieces. … If you have a really bad day like I often did, a little face may come out and stare back at you
Will that slow down the plaudits for the likes of Sella? Of course not. They are “feminist” champions who, with Speculum, Dilators, and Forceps in hand, are overthrowing the patriarchy.
A bloody badge of honor.