The letters section provides good motivation to do some research. Got to hand that to the writers.
It is not a "popular procedure". I don't know how one can put "having an abortion" with the word "popular". 
Before the practice was banned, it represented .17% of all abortions or less than 2/10ths of 1%. Before it was banned!
Look up the facts as reported in Wikipedia (I know, even though it is open sourced, there is the accusation that  it is a globalist controlled, liberal bent falsification of facts. Whatever!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact_dilation_and_extraction