[mdittmar]

The sad part is we're all going to have to answer to God one day for this.

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."
Mother Teresa (Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94)

[MHGinTN]

In case there are readers unfamiliar with the vagaries of this heinous killing method:

The 'procedure' takes days to accomplish because the serial killer places a seaweed coil in the woman's cervix (the exit/entrance sphincter of the uterus) that gradually swells to open the cervix. When dilation of the cervical opening is sufficient (not an easily predictable process, varying from individual to individual), the serial killer punctures the placental sac and turns the alive infant for a breech presentation (feet first), pulling the infant from the woman's body until only the head is lodged inside her body. The rest is well illustrated by jwalsh07, so I won't recount it.

Suffice it to say, this two or three day 'go home and wait' portion of the methodology is rife for complications endangering the woman's life (premature delivery, massive bleeding, infection, etcetera), so the characterizations by the lying, dissembling Boxer and Murray (so far, but Durbin and Lautenberg, et al will step up to spin their version of the lies tomorrow) that this is a necessary safe procedure to be available for 'physicians' to use is absurd on the face of it. I was breathless at the outright mischaracterizations made by those two female democrat senators (perhaps lies is more appropriate than mischaracterizations), as they stood on the floor of my United States Senate to defend the indefensible infanticide they seek to protect! Ghouls, that's what they are, masquerading as human beings. Boxer had the astonishing bravado to assert that she stood to defend infanticide 'as an advocate for children'!

[the Deejay]

Thing is, Boxer and her ilk would laugh at Mother Teresa and then spit in her eye. (It's the votes at election time that count.)

A Repulican in the senate, and on the floor of the senate, should repeat Mother Teresa's words verbatim, about 200 times for a start.

[Aquinasfan]

It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners.

Abortion as seen through the eyes of an angel. Great post.