I would like to address some of the supposed “truths” about dilation and extraction Laura Watkins wrote about in her Monday column. Having an abortion is a serious decision women do not make lightly.

What is the evidence? Chasen and colleagues [20] from Weill Medical College Cornell University recently reported that intact dilation and extraction has the same low morbidity rates as do other ...

Abortionists sometimes refer to these or similar types of abortions using obscure, clinical-sounding euphemisms such as "Dilation and Extraction" (D&X), or "intact D&E" (IDE) which mask the ...