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*increased risk of other devastating problems
*increased risk of other devastating problems
While the unborn child obviously dies from the procedure, there is growing evidence the unborn child suffers severe pain from the procedure before dying. No one denies that the pain is felt by unborn children in more advanced stages of pregnancy, and "researchers ... studying responses during fetal surgery, say they’ve observed flinching or physiological changes like an increase in stress hormones in fetuses even at 18 weeks’ gestation."<ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/04/14/is-fetal-pain-the-newest-abortion-battleground/</ref><ref>Slater, R., Cantarella, A., Gallella, S., Worley, A., Boyd, S., Meek, J., Fitzgerald, M. Cortical Pain Responses in Human Infants, Journal of Neuroscience, April 5 2006, 26(14):3662-3666</ref>
While the unborn child obviously dies from the procedure, there is growing evidence the unborn child suffers severe pain from the procedure before dying. No one denies that the pain is felt by unborn children in more advanced stages of pregnancy, and "researchers ... studying responses during fetal surgery, say they’ve observed flinching or physiological changes like an increase in stress hormones in fetuses even at 18 weeks’ gestation."<ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/04/14/is-fetal-pain-the-newest-abortion-battleground/</ref><ref>Slater, R., Cantarella, A., Gallella, S., Worley, A., Boyd, S., Meek, J., Fitzgerald, M. Cortical Pain Responses in Human Infants, Journal of Neuroscience, April 5, 2006, 26(14):3662-3666</ref>
"Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic ... [b]ut she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus "crumple" as it was vacuumed out of a patient's uterus in September.<ref name="Clinic Director"/>
"Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic ... [b]ut she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus "crumple" as it was vacuumed out of a patient's uterus in September.<ref name="Clinic Director"/>