Posted on 10/21/2003 3:30:10 PM PDT by Darth Reagan
DELIVERY AND DEATH, SENATE PASSES BAN ON PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION In a breathless report, Jim Abrams of the Associated Press announces the Senate's approval of a ban on "a practice that critics call partial birth abortion." Later, journalist Jim describes the practice, in his own words as "abortions, generally carried out in the second or third trimester, in which a fetus is partially delivered before being killed." Good thing you attributed the "partial birth" phrase to "critics". I guess "partially-delivered baby/fetus killing" would be more approriate.
Jimbo says "the bill imposes the most far-reaching limits on abortion since the Supreme Court in 1973." Maybe it does, I don't know, but here's what it does ban. Dr. Haskell went in with forceps and grabbed the baby's legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby's body and the arms-- everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I was really completely unprepared for what I was seeing. I almost threw up as I watched the doctor do these things.
Sen. Lautenberg: a safe medical procedure
The AP Story continues: "Opponents of the legislation argued that, as defined in the bill, it could apply to several safe and common procedures, and that the real goal of the legislation was to erode overall abortion rights." Genius Senator Barbara Boxer (and I'm sure Dennis Miller could defeat her) lost it: "I see what this is about ... this is about politics." Wow, politics in the Senate, no kidding.
"I never dreamed I'd be down here with senators who think they know more than doctors."
The only medical doctor in the Senate, Bill Frist, voted for the ban. Dream on Barbara.The bill defines partial birth abortion as delivery of a fetus "until, in the case of a headfirst presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of the breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus."
I prefer this description by a registered nurse who assisted a "dilation and extraction":I could see the heart beating. As Dr. Haskell watched the baby on the ultrasound screen, the baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen.
But this "procedure" in which a baby's head emerges from the mother, or his legs are out all the way to the umbilical cord and then he's killed is described in various ways by the "pro-choice" left:Sen. Boxer: a medical procedure that is considered medically necessary
Common? It is common to kill a fetus after the head has been delivered or after the torso up to the umbilical cord has been delivered? Common? Should this be described as "common" and "safe" (safe to whom? not the fetus) or, should Sen. Santorum's adjective apply: "brutality". How is this not clear? Right is wrong? War is Peace? Freedom is slavery? Terminating a half-delivered baby is "safe," "common" and "necessary"?Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt said her group would seek an injunction preventing the legislation from taking effect.
Well, there's a misnamed group. Can't we call it "the organization that supporters call 'Planned Parenthood'?" Planned Infanticide maybe?
The Lord shall judge those who have murdered.
It is no secret that sex makes babies. Therefore if you don't want babies, don't have sex. It is a pretty simple formula.
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