There is no such medical procedure and I defy you to find a descritption of such a procedure in a medical or legal text or peer revireed paer or constitutional piece of legislation.

It has no description, and court after court right up to the US Supreme Court has rejected legislation based on this Phantom Procedure   as unconstitutional since it is not described.

In rebuttal she presents the article "What the nurse saw…".

She Lied

And she also lied before Congress. Check out her own testimony: "I am Brenda Pratt Shafer.... I was at that time very pro-choice. I had even told my teenager daughters that if one of them ever got pregnant at a young age, I would make them get an abortion."

This is not a Pro-Choice position. This is anti-choice. Pro-Choice is not about making anyone get an abortion. However there is more evidence that she is lying. She was simply a temp - not full time.

The Truth About the Testimony of Nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer

Some of the testimony in support of the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act" has been very graphic and disturbing. But has it been accurate and true? Diana Griego Erwin of the Sacramento Bee has some interesting things to say on the issue.

Brenda Pratt Shafer, a nurse, testified that she quit her job at an Ohio clinic after witnessing late-term abortions performed on six healthy fetuses. But according to Ms. Erwin, in a column published on Sunday, November 5, 1995, the clinic at which Nurse Shafer worked does not perform third trimester abortions.

Is it possible that Nurse Shafer had witnessed second trimester abortions? Not according to Ms. Erwin and Christie Gallivan, the clinic's head nurse. Shafer was not a long-term employee of the clinic. In fact, she worked there for only three days. According to Gallivan, "We do not train temporary nurses in second-trimester dilation and extraction since it is a highly technical procedure."

Unfortunately, Nurse Shafer's story is still being circulated and reported without question, despite a "Dear Colleague" letter circulated on Capitol Hill by Congresswomen Patricia Schroeder, Shiela Jackson Lee and Zoe Lofgren that points out the inconsistencies.

Inaccurate and misleading claims on the part of abortion opponents are nothing new. This latest incident, along with the circulation of a damaging "quote" from one of the doctors who perform this procedure - a quote that appears nowhere in the magazine it was allegedly pulled from - is strong evidence that this bill's backers know it could never succeed on its own merits. _________________________________________________________________

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Now I'm quite aware that Pratt-Sheafer changed elements of her story later and had Dr. Haskill just salivating to hire her and ready to turn his clinic over to her.|/sarcasm| However she is simply, like another poster here, adding lies to previous lies. You'll find her modified lies at the Priests For Lies site. (Oh what a tangled web they weave..But when they’ve practiced quite a while, how vastly they improve their style.)

Eileen