Posted on 08/12/2007 11:31:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
How are abortion clinics protecting themselves against charges under the partial-birth abortion ban?
By ensuring unborn babies are dead by injecting them first with lethal drugs before aborting them.
The practice has been adopted by many abortion providers across the U.S. in the wake of the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, reported the Boston Globe.
The banned abortion procedure is particularly grisly. It requires the abortion doctor to partially deliver a live baby, then kill it by inserting scissors into the base of its head and using a suctioning machine to remove its brain.
Other procedures, employed in earlier-term pregnancies, kill the unborn child in the womb and the doctor removes the body parts afterward. But even with this procedure, live births have occurred.
The federal ban, upheld in August, does not specify the age of the baby and mandates a two-year prison sentence for violations.
In order to avoid any chance of a live birth and prosecution, three major Harvard-affiliated hospitals – Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women's, and Beth Israel Deaconess – have made lethal injections in the womb a standard operating procedure for abortions at 20 weeks gestation or later.
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The title Dr is a pretty loose term here...
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“The banned abortion procedure is particularly grisly. It requires the abortion doctor to partially deliver a live baby, then kill it by inserting scissors into the base of its head and using a suctioning machine to remove its brain.”
It appears that the folks from Sodom and Ghomorah were more compassionate, yet they got zapped. Imagine what this country can look forward to. Imagine what will happen to the lawmakers that approve of this slaughter.
I was hoping they gave the “mothers” trying to get abortions the lethal injection...if only.
Why don’t we hope that “Someday this injection will be given to the doctor that attempts to kill the unborn.” We can only dream.
Does it surprise anyone that there is a legal way around anything.
You are unusual in your consistency.
It is very odd to me that those who want to make abortion illegal are so reluctant to specify punishment for the mother who is trying to procure the abortion. If one truly believes abortion is murder, the mother is committing a criminal act exactly like the person who hires a contract killer to kill a target. There is no reason why she shouldn’t receive a long prison sentence for doing so.
It is this reluctance to punish the mother that makes me think that most people trying to make abortion illegal don’t really believe that it is equivalent to murder. They simply don’t feel that way in their gut.
I’m actually surprised that digoxin usage is a “new” procedure ,, I can’t imaging how dangerous it is for the “mother” to have a dying baby thrashing about with broken sharp leg and arm stumps... I guess I’ll never comprehend the “compassionate progressive” mind ..
It is simply M U R D E R, premeditated, in the first degree. It is time to convict these murderers who call them selves doctors of 1st degree murder. The clinics are also co-conspiritors in this grisly business.
Lethal injection, however is too good for these doctors - pith them.
You are correct. The mother should also be charged.
They will do anything to avoid the vicious wrath of feminazis.
Well couldn’t we see something like this coming? 20 weeks is roughly 5 months gestation. Might as well carry the baby to term, and put he/she up for adoption. Oh wait, that doesn’t fit the agenda.
I always thought the liberals were silly to put up such a fuss about the partial-birth abortion ban. That law is a diversion from confrontation over principles into a discussion about means. Which I think is a little like George Bernard Shaw’s quip to the lady who said she would consider sleeping with him for a million pounds but was insulted when he asked if she would spleep with him for ten pounds. He said “We’ve already established what you are. Now we’re haggling about price.”
Medical technology evolves quickly, as does our knowledge of what hormones and chemicals allow a pregnancy to progress successfully. We will find more and more ways to disrupt a pregnancy as we find out how to prevent miscarriages and stillbirths. Haggling about the means is a temporary distraction from the real point.
Personally I do not think abortion is murder. I think it is a tragic necessity in some cases, and I am content to leave it up the woman and her doctor. I think that abortion should be legal, with strenuous efforts made to educate both men and women about contraception, and teaching kids the value of waiting for sex, in hopes of reducing the demand for abortion. It would be as impossible to outlaw abortion as it has proven to be impossible to outlaw drug use.
Still, given the fact that abortion is making major inroads into the number of Liberals and Democrats that infest this country you may end up getting your wish.
After all, once we are down to a handful of women seeking abortions, it should be relatively easy to apply legal sanctions to them.
BTW, that does not mean in every case that either abortionists or certain women need to executed ~ that's an old fashioned way to do it ~ within a few years they're going to be able to slag out your mind and replace it with one better suited to a Great New Conservative Future!
You'll be very happy, I assure you.
“First do no harm.”
I see you have received your talking points from the left. Murder is murder. Double standards should not exist. Sure, there should be degrees of guilt based upon level of intent, circumstances, etc. Thus, if someone offs, say, an islamist who is shreiking for the death of an infidel, what punishment should he or she receive? Or, should he or she have a new constitutional right named after them?
If abortion is a necessity—and a woman's right—what makes it "tragic"? And if it is to be left up to a woman and her doctor, why make "strenuous efforts" to reduce the demand for abortion?
Our judicial masters have decreed that abortion is a woman's constitutional right. In that case, it is nobody's business whether a woman gets one abortion or a dozen. There is nothing tragic about it; the procedure has no more significance than getting one's hair done. Or so we are led to believe.
One more thing: We have not succeeded in eliminating murder, rape, or robbery. Is that an argument for making them legal too?
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