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The membrane has now been punctured, and the fluid has escaped. One no longer sees that large reservoir of fluid surrounding the child. But, once the fluid has been drained off, the suction tip has now been firmly clamped to the child’s body, and the child is being pulled in a downward direction, by the abortionist’s suction tip with the negative pressure applied to it, and the body is now being torn, systematically, from the head. The head of the child being in this direction here—I am now outlining the child’s head. The lower extremities have already been lost. We see the suction tip flashing from time to time in the screen, as a typhoon-like series of echoes. And the child is being tugged back and forth, as the suction tip has now been applied to the body, and the abortionist is exerting his traction on the child in this manner.