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the abortion doctor gives the pregnant woman anesthesia and uses instruments to cut up the fetus in his mother's womb and remove the fetal body parts through his mother's vagina. Other methods of mid-term and late-term abortion are instillation methods such as salt poisoning or other poisoning of the fetus and hysterotomy where incisions are made in the pregnant woman's abdomen and the uterus and the fetus, placenta, and amniotic sac are removed.

While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that abortion has been on the decline, many fetuses and other human lives at different stages of development still die from abortion. The latest CDC statistics say that the number of abortions performed in 1996 is 1,225,937, in 1997 1,186,039 and in 1998 884,273. In 1998 the CDC says 4.1 percent abortions were mid-term abortions and 1.4 percent abortion were late-term abortions. While mid-term and late-term abortions make up a small percentage of abortions, the number of these abortions performed is huge - about 46,000 annually. As a comparison, the latest CDC statistics are in 1995 72,967 people age 13 and older had AIDS and in 1996 it was 68,473. AIDS is potentially fatal. Abortion is almost always fatal for the fetus or developing human life.

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