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The child’s head is still discernable, here; the body is no longer discernable. It has now been torn from the head. What we see now is the head itself, with what is called the midline echo of the head, and the spicules, or fragments of bone. Now this head, which I am outlining here, on this twelve-week child is simply too large to be pulled in one piece out of the uterus. The abortionist is going to have to employ this instrument—the polyp forcep—in an attempt to grab the head. The abortionist will attempt to crush the head with this instrument, in this manner, and remove the head piecemeal from the uterus.