Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.

An examination of ancient and modern skeletal samples gathered from around the world reveals that the shape and size of the female birth canal varies widely among different human populations. These ...

It’s sometimes referred to as the “birth canal” because babies may pass through the vagina during birth. However, the vagina plays many other important roles in sexual health. It's where ...

Certain genes shared between mothers and their babies influence both the size of the mother’s birth canal and the baby’s head ...

Human babies barely fit through the birth canal. And even after all that trouble, newborns come out … well, helpless. Unlike baby chimpanzees, who are basically tiny adults, human babies spend a whole ...

The baby’s skull is then punctured, vacuumed out, and collapsed so that her head can pass easily through the birth canal. The abortionist in fact has to be careful to dilate enough to just get ...

Solomon: With more C-sections, that could lead to larger heads in our descendants because they wouldn't be constrained by the size of the birth canal. Narrator: And down the road, larger heads ...

Because the head is the largest and least flexible part of the baby, it's best for it to lead the way into the birth canal. That way there's little risk the body will make it through but the baby ...