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PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN - THE BETRAYAL IS NOW COMPLETE [BARF ALERT - ANTI-GOP PROPAGANDA]
NewsWithViews.com ^ | May 9, 2003 | By David Brownlow

Posted on 08/02/2003 10:39:40 PM PDT by Uncle Bill

PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN - THE BETRAYAL IS NOW COMPLETE

NewsWithViews.com
By David Brownlow
May 9, 2003
Source

A politician would have a hard time finding a more loyal special interest group than with those of us who oppose the legalized child killing industry. For the last thirty years of the war on the unborn, we have worked tirelessly to elect pro-life, mostly Republican, politicians.

Our loyalty was so strong that even though the Republicans failed to deliver us a single pro-life victory, we continued to send them back to Washington year after year. For thirty years, we trusted the Republicans when they told us to be patient, because they had a plan and a party platform that said abortion was wrong.

We now know that everything they told us was a complete pack of lies.

We know that because the Senate has finally passed the long awaited "Partial Birth Abortion Ban," Senate Bill S.3. Rather than being a useful tool in the fight to stop a barbaric and indefensible method of child killing, S.3 reads more like an instruction manual for abortionists.

In what can only be described as the mildest abortion restrictions that one could possibly put into words, Sec.1531 instructs the "doctor" to make sure and kill the child before "in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother". Or "in the case of breech presentation", make sure the child is killed before "any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother". (Actual text of SB S.3 in quotes)

With toothless restrictions like that, it is highly unlikely that even a single life will be saved. The only thing this will do is to make sure all the children are killed before the "entire fetal head" or the "fetal trunk past the navel" is showing. We waited thirty years for this?

Excuse me for shouting, but IF THE HEAD IS ALMOST OUT OF THE MOTHER, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KILL THE KID? Do we hate children so much that we cannot wait 10 more seconds for the child to be born? 42,000,000 children killed since 1973 and this is the best they could come up with. What kind of people have we been putting into office?

If Senate Bill S.3 was just plain bad legislation, we could almost forgive the politicians for their incompetence. But believe it or not, this bill gets even worse. It gets a lot worse.

Not content to just write a watered down, sorry excuse for an abortion ban, the Senate goes on in Sec. 4, to let us all know "The Sense on the Senate Concerning Roe. v. Wade". I am not sure what kind of sense these people have, but we have definitely found out what we get for thirty years of loyalty. The 48 Republican Senators who voted to approve S.3, pledged that,

You need to read that again. I've read it about 20 times and it still hurts to look at it.

Please understand that it was not just a few renegade Senators who voted for this. It was 48 Republican Senators, including every one of them who ever told us they were pro-life, who put their name on a bill that says; Roe v. Wade was "appropriate." This is a clear, unambiguous reaffirmation of the illegal Supreme Court decision that started this whole mess back in 1973. If I had not read it for myself I would not believe it.

The extent of their betrayal is absolutely breath taking!

So now we know why the Republicans have gone thirty years without a single pro- life victory. These guys are not even pro-life! We have been fooling ourselves that somehow, despite all the evidence to the contrary, the years of partisan efforts were getting us closer to ending legalized abortion in America. But if the "sense" of the Senate is any indication, we have not even started the fight. We can now only hope that the House has enough sense to put S.3 out of it's misery.

A decades old policy of voting for the lesser of two evils has left us with a Republican Party that is a mere hollowed-out shell of its former self, broken beyond any hope of repair. The only way we are ever going to win this fight is by putting men and women of integrity into office who will not bow to the political pressures.

Clearly, the team we have in there now is not up to the task.


Partial- birth abortion ban hits snag over Roe v. Wade affirmation
"President Bush supports the ban, but there has been no indication if he would sign it into law if it included the Roe resolution."


S 3 ES

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 3


AN ACT

To prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS.

`CHAPTER 74--PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS

`Sec. 1531. Partial-birth abortions prohibited

--1531'.

SEC. 4. SENSE OF THE SENATE CONCERNING ROE V. WADE.

Passed the Senate March 13, 2003.

Attest:

Secretary.

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 3

AN ACT

To prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.

END


Bush Signs Largest Family Planning Bill In U.S. History

Covenant News
Staff
January 11, 2002

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, the White House reported President Bush signed the ominous $15.4 billion foreign appropriations bill, H.R. 2506, for fiscal-year 2002. The bill authorizes $446.5 million U.S. tax dollars to be given to other countries for abortion- family planning activities throughout the world. The abortion-family planning funds approved by Bush represents an increase of $21.5 million over last year for international family planning.
[end of excerpt]
SOURCE

U.S. Quietly OKs Fetal Stem Cell Work - Bush allows funding despite federal limits on embryo use

White House killed human-cloning ban
Although President Bush has endorsed a complete ban on human cloning sponsored by senators Sam Brownback, R.-Kan., and Mary Landrieu, D.- La., White House lobbyists contacted Republican senators June 18 to ask them to vote that morning for cloture (a closing of debate to bring a legislative question to a vote) on the Senate's terrorism insurance bill (S 2600), thus preventing an up-or-down vote on a human cloning amendment that Brownback wanted to attach to the bill. His amendment would have banned the patenting of human embryos – effectively destroying any economic incentive for the experimental cloning of human beings."


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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Mo1; William Wallace
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
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Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
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I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
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If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
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Don’t you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I’m crying.

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
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Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
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861 posted on 08/07/2003 8:27:45 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez ("Palm Pilot...a nickname boys used to get when they reached puberty"---Dennis Miller)
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To: DeSoto
Besides, I still like circuses, especially in states that I don't live. LOL! This should at least be fun to watch.

Just watching the Dems dropping into a depression has be enjoyable.

I don't know much about the other canidates .. but other freepers say a few can also do a good job for the state.

As for Arnold .. IMO he can fix the state .. but he not a "true" conservative and I'm sure many will have something to say about it

862 posted on 08/07/2003 8:31:39 PM PDT by Mo1 (I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
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To: Mo1; DeSoto
You guys think this is a shoe-in for Arnold?

He has serious challengers you know.


863 posted on 08/07/2003 8:40:54 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez ("Palm Pilot...a nickname boys used to get when they reached puberty"---Dennis Miller)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
LOL .. Oh geez

No I wouldn't say a shoe in .. I hear the Dems are gonna get really nasty and really dirty on Arnold. so anything can happen
864 posted on 08/07/2003 8:43:30 PM PDT by Mo1 (I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Luis,
Don't make light of serious candidates like Gary Coleman. There are light hearted and fun candidates like Larry Flynt to consider as well. With one of the Gallagher brothers, both of the Huffingtons, and a crowd of other misfits, we are going to need a Ringmaster with a lot more than 3 rings to stage this event. LOL


865 posted on 08/07/2003 8:58:09 PM PDT by DeSoto
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To: Luis Gonzalez
hey! why bring my school into this?
866 posted on 08/07/2003 8:59:39 PM PDT by Texaggie79 (Did I say that?)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Ray Rhodes is running for governor of California? I thought he was the Seahawks' new defensive coordinator. Boy, I gotta keep up with the news.
867 posted on 08/07/2003 9:00:32 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.)
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To: DeSoto
I can understand why Flynt jumped in .. he's a pig that wanted camera time

But Gallagher ??? .. that one I don't get
868 posted on 08/07/2003 9:01:41 PM PDT by Mo1 (I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
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To: Luis Gonzalez
What would be the difference between asking JimRob or you to verify it ? I mean, if they don't exist, then it shouldn't be a problem, right? Can Jim be asked if the other poster has EVER had, or now has, multiple ID's? I won't start posting facts or info out here, because it will only add to the flames. But the people who need to know, know.

This crap needs to drop. It's obvious Jim knows who is the pot and who is the kettle. You're still here, which says something. I think you handled this right, bringing it to the site owner in person, not dragging it out (off topic) onto a thread. Gee...what would the motive be for that, I wonder?

You're smart for not taking their bait and lowering to their position, IMO. Kinda hypocritical of them to try to get you banned for multiple screen names when they have them, too. This is ridiculous.
869 posted on 08/07/2003 9:20:48 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican; Luis Gonzalez; William Wallace; Sabertooth; Sir Gawain
I say, drop this and have some milk and cookies like mature 5 year olds.
870 posted on 08/07/2003 9:27:29 PM PDT by Texaggie79 (Did I say that?)
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To: Texaggie79
Lactose intolerant. Allergic to flour and chocolate. Any other bright ideas?
871 posted on 08/07/2003 9:30:15 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
yeah! round up the girls and let's play doctor.....
872 posted on 08/07/2003 9:33:31 PM PDT by Texaggie79 (Did I say that?)
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
This crap needs to drop

I agree

873 posted on 08/07/2003 9:41:34 PM PDT by Mo1 (I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
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To: Luis Gonzalez; Jim Robinson
From the ACLJ

Senate Passes Ban on Partial Birth Abortion
Susan Jones Morning Editor

(CNSNews.com) - As expected, the Senate passed a bill banning partial birth abortions Thursday morning, by a vote of 64 to 33. House passage is anticipated this spring, and President Bush has said he will sign the bill into law.

Supporters say the bill outlaws a barbaric procedure that is tantamount to infanticide - a baby is partially delivered, stabbed in the head, and then born dead. Opponents say the bill is a Trojan horse - a sneaky move to clamp a wider ban on other types of abortions.

Opponents of the bill are promising a court challenge once it becomes law, and supporters say they're ready.

The American Center for Law and Justice called passage of the bill "an important victory for the protection of human life."

Jay Sekulow, ACLJ's chief counsel, said his group will now work to ensure passage of a partial birth abortion ban in the U.S. House of Representatives. And he predicted the measure will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In that case, Sekulow said, "We will work aggressively to defend this law in court - a law that is not only necessary, but eminently constitutional as well."

Another pro-life group, Concerned Women for America, said the bill the Senate passed on Thursday will "end a gruesome procedure that is harmful to women."

Sandy Rios, CWA president, says the late-term procedure endangers women's lives for the abortionist's convenience.

"Who would have thought that a ban on such a harmful procedure as partial-birth abortion would have taken nearly a decade to enact into law?" Rio s asked.

Dr. James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, called Senate passage of the bill a victory for the most vulnerable members of the human family - babies just a heartbeat away from being born.

"Any society that condones infanticide cannot call itself civilized," said Dobson in a statement. It not only kills babies, "It dulls our senses as a nation," he said.

Some pro-life groups, however, see the partial birth abortion bill as a smokescreen that obscures the real issue - which they define as abortion at any stage of pregnancy.

In a statement, President Bush called partial-birth abortion "an abhorrent procedure that offends human dignity." He commended the Senate for passing the bill, calling the action "an important step toward building a culture of life in America."

874 posted on 08/07/2003 9:49:59 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Luis Gonzalez; Jim Robinson
ACLJ Applauds U.S. House Approval of Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion
June 5, 2003

(Washington, DC) - The American Center for Law and Justice, a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law, said the vote last night in the U.S. House of Representatives approving legislation that bans partial-birth abortion is a critical next step in the defense of the unborn. The measure passed by a vote of 282-139.

"This is the next critical step in protecting the life of the unborn from a procedure that can only be described as infanticide," said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ. "This is a constitutionally-sound measure that will meet the legal challenges ahead. We look forward to President Bush signing this bill and stand ready to defend it in the courts."

The ACLJ this week notified the House that it has heard from nearly 145,000 Americans who signed petitions urging the House to approve a ban on partial-birth abortion. The Senate already approved a similar measure and once the differences are worked out, President Bush has said he will sign it into law. Once that occurs, several organizations have said they will immediately file lawsuits challenging the measure.

The American Center for Law and Justice is a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law. The ACLJ is based in Washington, D.C. If you would like additional information about the ACLJ, you can visit these websites: www.aclj.org or www.demossnewspond.com/aclj.

http://www.aclj.org/news/pressreleases/030605_pba.asp?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030605/ts_nm/congress_abortion_dc_4
875 posted on 08/07/2003 9:51:44 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Mo1
Oh I can understand the Gallagher bit.

Can't you visualize the sledge-o-matic shtick at the podium in the rotunda in Sacramento? It would be a performance of a lifetime. LOL

From the official Gallagher website.

GALLAGHER FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA!!



The problem with politics is that it is too lucrative. If you vote for something you get paid. If you don't vote for something you still get paid. Anybody in their right mind would go into it. What we need is people who are not of their right mind to get things done! If you are against gay sex, then let gay people get married, that kills the sex everytime!


876 posted on 08/07/2003 9:52:23 PM PDT by DeSoto
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To: winodog
Mothers-Doctors,also Father,Grandmother's,Grandfather's.Aunt's,Uncles,Best friend's,prayer pratner's,,Sister's.Brother's.If you stand outside an abortion chamber you see it all.
877 posted on 08/07/2003 9:53:54 PM PDT by fatima (Jim,Karen,We are so proud of you.Thank you for all you do for our country.)
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To: DeSoto
Can't you visualize the sledge-o-matic shtick at the podium in the rotunda in Sacramento? It would be a performance of a lifetime. LOL

ROFL!! .. you know, I never thought of it that way

878 posted on 08/07/2003 10:01:21 PM PDT by Mo1 (I have nothing to add .. just want to see if I make the cut and paste ;0))
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To: winodog
Following are excerpts from the Senate floor debate on S. 3, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.
Mrs. CLINTON. Does the Senator's legislation make exceptions for serious life-threatening abnormalities or babies who are in such serious physical condition that they will not live outside the womb?

Mr. SANTORUM. No, if----

Mrs. CLINTON. That is the point.

Mr. SANTORUM. I understand the Senator's point. I guess my point in rebuttal is that if you want to create a separation in the law between those children who are perfect and those children who are not----

Mrs. CLINTON. No----

Mr. SANTORUM. Please, let me finish. If a child is not perfect, then that child can be aborted under any circumstances. But if that child is perfect, we are going to protect that child more. I do not think the Americans with Disabilities Act would fit very well into that definition. The Americans with Disabilities Act--of which I know the Senator from Iowa has been a great advocate, and I respect him greatly for it--says we treat all of God's children the same. We look at all--perfect and imperfect--as creatures of God created in his image.

What the Senator from New York is asking me to do is separate those who are somehow not the way our society sees people as they should be today and put them somewhat a peg below legal protection than the perfect child. I hope the Senator is not recommending that because I think that would set a horrible precedent that could be extrapolated, I know probably to the disgust of the Senator from Iowa, certainly to me.

No, I do not have an exception in this legislation that says if you are perfect, this cannot happen to you; but if you are not perfect, yes, this can occur. The Senator is right, I do not. ...

Mr. SANTORUM. Madam President, first, I say again that in many of these difficult cases, if not all of them, to my knowledge--and I would be curious to hear if there is a case I am not aware of where there needs to be a separation of the mother from the child. I am not aware of any case, and I would certainly be anxious to hear any testimony to the contrary where separation necessarily means abortion. Separation does not necessarily mean abortion, and there are other ways to protect both the health of the mother and the health of the child. As a society, I think if that is possible, then that should be our preference.

Let me go back and talk about the overall issue of Roe v. Wade and where we have come as a result of that. Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Maybe the biggest problem I have with Roe v. Wade was that abortion was a matter that was decided by the people and by its elected representatives. It was, as every other issue is in America, decided in the public square, decided by this kind of debate.

I think this is wonderful. I think the people need to hear this. We do not get enough debate on the issue of abortion. It has sort of been put away in a corner. Why? I would argue this is the great moral issue of our time. It parallels very closely the issue of slavery back in the early 1800s, and the reason is because it is really the same issue.

The slavery issue was: Here is the African American, here is the black man and woman, and what we said in this country was we could look at this person, we could see this person, but under the Constitution it was not a person. We said this individual, this human being, was not conferred personhood under the Constitution. That is what slavery was all about. As a result, that person was property. What all of us knew to be a human being became property, and we had to fight a war to eventually overturn that.

Where are we with the issue of abortion? The child in the womb is not considered a person under the Constitution. Now, we can see it in a sonogram. That is one of the things that makes partial-birth abortion such an important debate because the baby can really be seen. One can see this is a human being; it is nothing but. But according to the Constitution, this child is not a person.

It is the same debate. It is the same argument. William Wilberforce in England, when he fought to overturn the slave trade, put together a poster. It was a picture of a black man. Underneath the picture, it said: Am I not a man?

I would simply say, look at this chart and under this picture could we not say: Am I not a child?
According to Roe v. Wade, according to the law of this great land, the answer to that question is, emphatically, no, and look what we can do to you.

Why? Because you are property. You are like the slave. You have no rights.

How we have twisted our Constitution, which is based on life and liberty. What is first, liberty or life? Think about that. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Do we think the Framers sort of just threw those words together? Do we think they could have said, happiness, liberty, life, they sort of played around and said, which one of these is the right one? Did they put them in order for any reason? We can bet they put them in an order for a reason.

Can someone have liberty without life? No. There is no way possible, if one does not have the right to life, that they can have any liberty.

Can someone have true happiness without liberty? No. Life is a prerequisite to liberty. But what have we done in the case of Roe v. Wade? We have taken life and liberty and we have flipped them.

In Roe v. Wade, the Court put liberty ahead of life, and said the rights of a woman, liberty--this is the liberty clause, this is the grounds from which Roe v. Wade was derived. Of course, the right to abortion is not in the Constitution. But where does it come from? It comes from the what clause? The liberty clause.

So we took liberty and moved it ahead of life. What are the consequences of that? Obviously, we know what the consequences of that are for the child. What are the consequences of that for all of us? The consequences of that for all of us are that now one's freedom to do what one wants trumps someone else's right to exist.

In this case, it is just this little child in the womb. But if we set this precedent, which we have, that my right to my liberty trumps another's right to life--the Senator from New York talks about the slippery slope. Oh, what a slope we are on now. The Senator from New York talked about, you did not show the deformed child. Well, there is a guy in Princeton, NJ, by the name of Peter Singer who talks just about that issue. He talks about the deformed child. And what does he say? He says Roe v. Wade has it right. They put liberty in front of life, and that is right because some people are not worth having around. Yes, that is what he says. Is this guy a kook? Is this guy some sort of flake who is out there in the ether? No.

He is a professor. Is he a professor at XYZ State University at Blackwater, PA? No. He is at Princeton University--a ``distinguished'' chair at one of our great universities.

What does he say? He writes: I should think it should be somewhat short of one year.
What does he mean, ``somewhat short of one year''?

Somewhat short of 1 year after birth that we should be able to--what? Kill these little deformed children who happen to be born. Why? Well, because they are not really useful. Their life doesn't mean much. Our liberty means more than their life. Here again, moving life in front of liberty. Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

This is the product of Roe v. Wade. This is the product of the Court taking from us who understand ordered rights--that rights are put in order for a reason. Our Founders had it right.
Those who proclaim the virtue of abortion as a right said this would be a blessing to our society. They said: This would be a great blessing. So many positive things will happen. Divorces will come down. Spouse abuse will come down. Infant abuse will come down. Child abuse will come down. Abortions, of course, will go up, but the benefit is domestic violence will go down, teen pregnancy will go down, infanticide will go down, abandoned children will go down. And of course, none of them did. None of them did. Quite the contrary. All of them have at least doubled since 1973 as a percentage.

So this nirvana that getting rid of these--because, see, they argue that since we are going to get rid of 1.3 million children--25 percent of all pregnancies end in abortion--since we are going to get rid of all these unwanted stresses in people's lives, problems in people's lives, then people will be better off, people will be happier, people will be more free; people won't do bad things because they won't have this stress that complicates their life.

But is that the lesson that people learn? No. Sadly, people are much smarter than that. They learned from the leaders of our great country that the value of life was diminished. And they learned from our great country that their personal liberty was more important than your life. Their liberty, their rights, trump you. That is what they learned.

As I mentioned earlier, that is why the two guys ran into Columbine, toting their guns and shooting people, screaming, ``I am the law,'' because that is what Roe v. Wade taught us. They taught us we can put down our neighbor, just like in the early years of this country we could put down the black man and woman.

We are on a very dangerous practice. I know we will celebrate and affirm Roe v. Wade. Our colleagues will support it because it is the law of the land and it is well accepted. I accept the fact that in this body I am a voice in the wilderness. But I will speak. This is not the most popular thing to come and talk about. These halls are not filled with people who want to speak on this issue. I understand, this is a tough one. You make a lot of people mad when you get up and talk about abortion because it is personal. I know. It is personal. But we have to step back.
I thank the Senator from Iowa for giving us an opportunity to step back and look at what we are doing, look at what we have done, and look at what may come of us if we do not turn away and give back to the people.

I was at a briefing the other day, and someone talked about the Iraqis and said: We are worried about them transitioning to democracy because historically they like being ruled. And I thought to myself: Just like Americans on abortion. They like being told what their position should be. They like the Court taking it and ruling. They do not want to have to think about it. They know they do not like it, but they do not want to talk about it, think about it, vote. They want someone else ruling for them. It is easier to give someone else your rights and let them make decisions for you. It makes your life a lot simpler.

I argue it is not making your life much better. No, what Roe v. Wade has done is separate the person, the human being--and there is no doubt, from the moment of conception this is a genetically human organism. It is human, fully human. Nothing is added. It is fully human. And it is, by definition, alive. How do we know? Because the definition of life is something that metabolizes, and this clearly is metabolizing. It is human life.

What did Roe v. Wade do? It took away the instantaneous bonding of human life and human person under the Constitution. It separated them. I repeat this for emphasis. It separated the human person from the human being. That precedent is now the law of the land. And you know what happens with precedent in this country; it is followed. Today for the unborn, tomorrow for--watch out. Watch out.

I remember in one of the early debates on this bill, I got an e-mail from a man from London who said he was sitting there watching the debate, hearing people talk about all these people with disabilities who needed to be destroyed through partial-birth abortion. Not because the mother's health was in danger--because they just were not perfect. He said: I am sitting in my wheelchair as a disabled man with spina bifida, knowing that they are talking about me. They are talking about me.

Today the child in the womb. Tomorrow?

I yield the floor.
879 posted on 08/07/2003 10:04:57 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Luis Gonzalez
I have this fantasy of setting up another account as "Bad Torie," and then having Bad Torie debate with Torie. Maybe I could have a third account named "Good Torie," and get "her" into the mix too. Who who is part of the FR power structure should I contact to make this all happen, so as to avoid the unpleasantness of having all three names being Zotted?
880 posted on 08/07/2003 10:10:37 PM PDT by Torie
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