Last week, a Texas courtroom completed a five-day trial centered around abortion procedures. While the decision is pending, the arguments themselves were a study in how many second trimester abortions are done, how little people know about it, and how much abortion advocates overlook the gruesome nature of the event.

Texas lawmakers passed a bill last year that banned “dismemberment” abortions on a live baby. This is otherwise known as a dilation and evacuation (D & E) wherein a doctor pulls apart the baby’s limbs with a forceps or sopher clamp, and which usually occur in the second trimester, when the baby is too big to simply be suctioned out of the woman’s uterus.