One thing that strikes me as odd in this Partial Birth Abortion debate is this. If you honestly believe that PBA is the taking of an innocent life why would you want to wait? Does politics trump the innocent lives that will be lost while we wait? - Tom
Daschle could give a flying .... how many die in the interim.
Uhhh... "-Tom."
We've been trying for thirty years to reverse Roe v. Wade. If there were a magic wand to wave, somebody would have waved it by now.
Obviously, you have that magic wand. If you truly believe that partial birth abortion is the taking of innocent life, then why have you waited so long to wave it?
Unfortunately even when the PBA bill is passed it won't stop the "procedure" from happening at all. All a doctor has to do is say the health of the mother is at risk, and they can legally continue this slaughter of innocent lives. Bush knows this, and knows that this bill won't save one live, but I can't understand why he is waiting since over 75% of Americans are for this ban.
No, but here's an analogy. Suppose there was a burning building with kids trapped inside burning to death. You could rush in right away and maybe save 2 or 3 before you succumbed to smoke and heat and burned to death. Or you could take a few minutes to prepare, put on a flameproof suit, and save much more.
Rushing right ahead to ban partial birth abortion wouldn't do any good if it inflamed the Democrats to such a degree that it was impossible to get conservative judges appointed. Then the Pro-death constitution-ignoring liberal activist judges would just declare that sucking the brains out of an unborn child'd perforated skull is a constitutionally protected right, and any legislation would be meaningless.