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Sec. 1531. Partial-birth abortions prohibited

`(a) Any physician who, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly performs a partial-birth abortion and thereby kills a human fetus shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. This subsection does not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself. This subsection takes effect 1 day after the enactment.

`(b) As used in this section--

`(1) the term `partial-birth abortion' means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion--

`(A) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, 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, 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; and

"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", the child should be killed before "any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother". (Actual text of S.3 and HR 760 in quotes)

This is not a ban. These are targeting coordinates, plain and simple giving instructions to the abortionists on how to do the procedure whether the navel is showing outside the body in a breech procedure and whether or not the fetal head is fully presented outside the body during a head-first presentation. The abortionists are certainly not stupid. This will not even slow them down. And will there be a federal official in each abortuary monitoring each PBA procedure? Of course not, there is no way to enforce this so-called ban. A law that only protects a child in the last ten seconds of a nine-month pregnancy is a total fraud.

This is the reason why Judie Brown of the American Life League did NOT support this bill. It's a fraud, plain and simple. It is hard to imagine how anyone could even write a law that would provide fewer restrictions on the legal killing of a human being. As such, it is highly unlikely that even one single child will be saved using the language of this "ban." In addition, the health of the mother provision does not take into account that the PBA procedure is mostly a 2-day (sometimes a 3-day) procedure. If a woman is supposedly dying because she is pregnant a C-section would save her, not a PBA. There is NO reason why a mother would have to undergo the Partial Birth Abortion procedure except to kill her infant due to a selfish reason as a means of convenience.

Admittedly, the language of the ban is not precisely what we pro-lifers desired. It is a good step in the right direction and the precedent set today will surely see a better ban get passed in the future. I remember that this ban was a watered-down version, but I supported it anyway as it does provide an obstacle to the abortionists. The primary method of Partial Birth Abortion is banned now. And, yes, the abortion butchers will still work to find more efficient ways of murdering unborn children. We won a battle here, not the war. The war continues and we must still fight - and not surrender to those in our party who wish us to (cough cough Giuiliani) - to eventually eliminate this form of child sacrifice from our Republic.