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7/30/2019

Abortion Doctor: “It’s Even More Satisfying When It’s A Real Abortion”

Filed under: General — Dana @ 11:53 am



[guest post by Dana]

Said no baby in the womb, ever.

I’ve always maintained that it is absolutely essential to the pro-abortion team to keep any mention or acknowledgement of personhood out of the abortion discussion. Never, ever acknowledge that a unique individual with a soul, and created in the image of God is growing inside of their mother’s body. Because once you admit that there is indeed personhood, then you confirm that you are killing a living being. Same goes with why there is a strong objection for women to have an ultrasound done before deciding whether to have an abortion. Taking in the fullness and life of that tiny, pumping heart could be a deal breaker, and that’s not good for the abortion industry’s bottom line.

But because abortion still um, has a stigma attached to it, doctors are working to demystify and destigmatize the process. And they’re conducting “papaya workshops” to help accomplish that:

“This is a 10-week gravid uterus,” Zoey Thill said, holding up a “pregnant” papaya the size of a large fist. “And this,” she added, gesturing to her own pregnant belly, “is a 38-week gravid uterus.”

Thill, a New York City-based abortion provider, was explaining the anatomy of the uterus to a group of about a dozen of us, in Verso Books’ Brooklyn office on a Monday night. The narrow part of the papaya, where the stem would be, is like the cervix, she said. The broader portion of the papaya is like the upper area of the uterus known as the fundus—and it’s that part we would want to avoid puncturing with our tools when, in just a few minutes, we would practice performing an aspiration abortion on our own papayas.

But if we did by accident, that was OK, Thill said. “We’re not going to shame perforators,” she reassured.

Thill brought us to a long table across the room, where several Hawaiian papayas were lined up on surgical pads. After telling us about the tools that were laid out—plus the ones she didn’t have with her, the speculum and tenaculum—Thill demonstrated a first-trimester abortion on the papaya she’d displayed earlier. She talked to the “patient” throughout, checking in on how they were doing as she inserted a finger into the “cervix,” then pantomimed inserting the speculum; she pretended to apply the local anesthetic and then began inserting the metal tapered rods on the table one by one to dilate the opening.

When the papaya was fully “dilated,” she placed a plastic tube called a cannula inside and attached it to a manual vacuum aspirator, a plastic, syringe-like device, sucking out the inner contents of the papaya: what, for our purposes, was the pregnancy. From start to finish, the procedure had taken no more than three minutes.

Thill admired the seeds in the plastic tube. “This is a really fucking good one.”

After participants successfully performed their own “abortions,” Thill cheered them on, and said:

“It’s even more satisfying when it’s a real abortion,”

My question is, why resort to using an inanimate object? Why not just show a real abortion taking place? If your goal really is to demystify the procedure, then be totally transparent. This would be much more honest, and would more accurately inform women about what really takes place during the procedure. Of course, the downside for the abortionist is that it wouldn’t help them keep personhood or life out of the equation. Best stick to inanimate objects for that.

Too bad that after the papaya performance was done, no one asked Thill to demonstrate a second and third trimester abortion. I would have.

The desperate efforts to dehumanize murder continue apace.

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

15 Responses to “Abortion Doctor: “It’s Even More Satisfying When It’s A Real Abortion””

  1. Cheap thrills for the abortionist.

    Dana (bb0678)

  2. These people are inhuman and they have no shame.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  3. Thank God I’m a country boy.
    John Denver

    mg (303111)

  4. You don’t want women to have abortions even though you oppose the welfare state that would have to take care of them. The other side is about ready to give right to lifers post natal abortions. What you going to do when AOC tells conservatives on the supreme court when she becomes presient in 2025 resign from office today or we put you in these cattle cars to take you to the re-education camp tonight.

    lany (6c2f15)

  5. Sick sick Moloch worshippers.

    NJRob (71c153)

  6. 4… Have the attendants up your meds, Perry

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  7. Imagine slogging through two semesters of major’s biology, two semesters of anatomy & physiology, two semesters of organic chemistry, one semester of biochemistry, at least one and maybe two semesters of physics, at least one and maybe two semesters of calculus, and then perhaps a semester of statistics for life sciences. And then imagine taking the course load at medical school for five years, doing your rotations and your internship — and then spending the rest of your career gleefully snuffing out the life of unborn children.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  8. [Godwin Alert]

    Do you suppose she received her M.D. from the Josef Mengele School of Medicine?

    JVW (54fd0b)

  9. 7. There’s money in it. There has to be. Otherwise, why would it be done?

    Gryph (08c844)

  10. There’s money in it. There has to be. Otherwise, why would it be done?

    What if people like Dr. Thill derive great personal joy and satisfaction in performing her daily tasks? The way she comes off in the description of her workshop makes it sound as if that could truly be the case.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  11. 7. There’s money in it. There has to be. Otherwise, why would it be done?

    Gryph (08c844) — 7/30/2019 @ 2:37 pm

    There’s money in it… and there’s political advocacy about it.

    You’d have to be a true die-hard supporters of the abortion industry.

    whembly (51f28e)

  12. 11. That was kind of sarcasm on my part. There appears to be a quasi-religious zeal in support for abortion, at least among the politicians that support it. It makes no sense to me, but then again, my belief in a personal, omnipotent and omniscient God makes no sense either to those who do not believe as I do.

    Gryph (08c844)

  13. baal worship, restated as convenience, a culture where everything is disposable, where nothing has innate value,

    narciso (d1f714)

  14. Watching a breaking news report of a female seen in distress and apparently giving birth to two babies near a dumpster, leaving them both on the ground. When Fairfield, Ca. officers arrived, they found one of the newborns dead and the mother walking the streets of a nearby neighborhood.

    The dismal tide continues…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  15. I assure you, it is real death.

    tmm (3d89bc)


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