Lethal injection now becoming the norm in late term abortions

Here is an article (full of the usual euphemisms) of what abortionists are doing to shield themselves from partial birth abortion charges.

Note that the lethal injection approach is one of the favored abortion approaches of Tiller, in Wichita Kansas.

Shots assist in aborting fetuses - The Boston Globe

... others, although they do not perform the banned procedure, feel compelled to do all they can to protect themselves and their staff from the possibility of being accused. Upheld in April, the federal ban is broadly written, does not specify an age for the fetus, and carries a two-year prison sentence.

In Boston, three major Harvard-affiliated hospitals -- Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and Beth Israel Deaconess -- have responded to the ban by making the injections the new standard operating procedure for abortions beginning at around 20 weeks' gestation, said Dr. Michael F. Greene, director of obstetrics at Mass. General.

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The injections are generally done in abortions after 18 or 20 weeks gestation. (Massachusetts bans virtually all abortions at and beyond the 24th week, except to protect the life or health of the mother.) Medical staff inject either the heart drug digoxin or potassium chloride, a potentially poisonous salt also used in state executions.

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... concern is so great in his clinic, he said, that the ban is having an impact on medical education: Medical students and nursing students are no longer invited to watch later-term abortions, for fear one might misinterpret the procedure and lodge a criminal complaint.

Abortions are performed at a wide range of facilities, from major hospitals to small, tightknit family planning clinics, and the setting can greatly influence the decision about injections, said Dr. Laurent Delli-Bovi, medical director of Women's Health Services, a private family planning facility in Chestnut Hill.

In large hospitals, she said, there is likely to be a range of feeling for and against abortion and so more need for providers to act defensively.

Comments

[Theresa]

sounds like a saline abortion....it is still hard to believe that we allow this stuff...crazy...makes me want to cry....