Responding to criticisms from medical doctors that this method of cutting up the fetus, known as the Dilation and Evacuation (D & E) technique, is outdated, Aldrich offers 2003 statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show that 96 % of second- and third-trimester abortions in the US were performed by means of D & E techniques.
至於有醫生提出影片中剪碎取出的 D＆E 墮胎方式早已過時，艾力勤提出證據，依據美國疾病管制局二○○三年統計，在美國中、晚期的墮胎手術，百分之九十六仍使用 D＆E 手術。