My name is Dr. Anthony Levatino.
I’m a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist, and I’ve performed over 1,200 abortions.
Today, I’m going to describe a 1st Trimester Surgical Abortion, called Suction D & C,
Dilatation and Curettage.
This is the most frequently performed abortion,
and is used typically from 5 to 13 weeks of pregnancy.
After administering anesthesia, the abortionist uses a speculum, like this.
This is placed inside the vagina, and opened using this screw on the side, allowing the
abortionist to see the cervix, the entrance to the uterus.
The cervix acts as a gate that stays closed for the duration of pregnancy, protecting
the baby until it is ready for birth.
The abortionist uses a series of metal rods called dilators, like these, which increase
in thickness, and inserts them into the cervix to dilate it, gaining access to the inside
of the uterus where the baby resides.
The baby has a heartbeat, fingers, toes, arms, and legs,
but its bones are still weak and fragile.
The abortionist takes a suction catheter, like this one.
This is a 14 French Suction Catheter.
It’s clear plastic, about 9 inches long, and it has a hole through the center.
It is inserted through the cervix, into the uterus.
The suction machine is then turned on, with a force 10-20 times more powerful than your
household vacuum cleaner.
The baby is rapidly torn apart by the force of the suction, and squeezed through this
tubing down into the suction machine, followed by the placenta.
Though the uterus is mostly emptied at this point, one of the risks of a Suction D & C
is incomplete abortion, essentially pieces of the baby or placenta left behind.
This can lead to infection or bleeding.
In an attempt to prevent this,
the abortionist uses a curette to scrape the lining of the uterus.
A curette is basically a long-handled curved blade.
Once the uterus is empty, the speculum is removed and the abortion is complete.
The risks of Suction D & C include perforation or laceration of the uterus or cervix, potentially
damaging intestine, bladder, and nearby blood vessels, hemorrhage, infection, and in rare
instances, even death.
Future pregnancies are also at a greater risk for loss or premature delivery due to abortion-related
trauma and injury to the cervix.
As I mentioned at the beginning, I’m Dr. Anthony Levatino, and in the early part of
my career as an OB/GYN I performed over 1,200 abortions.
One day, after completing one of those abortions, I looked at the remains of a preborn child
whose life I had ended, and all I could see was someone's son or daughter.
I came to realize that killing a baby at any stage of pregnancy, for any reason, is wrong.
I want you to know today, no matter where you’re at or what you’ve done,
you can change.
Make a decision today to protect the preborn. Thank you for your time.
I will no longer do any more abortions.
When you finally figure out that killing a baby that big for money is wrong, then it
doesn’t take you too long to figure out it doesn’t matter if the baby is this big,
or this big, or this big, or maybe even this big— it’s all the same.
And I haven’t done any since then and I never will.