We had a pair of surgical scissors and I would take the surgical scissors and I would … snip the back of the neck so that you are snipping right at the top of the spinal cord … it's literally a beheading because what you're doing is you're separating the brain from the body. In other words, if you cut off the head, the body dies. That's plain as it gets.
Testimony of Steven Massof in Kermit Gosnell trial, April 2013.