Posted on 07/19/2002 4:00:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
WASHINGTON, DC, Jul 19, 02 (CWNews.com) - The US Senate on Thursday passed a bill protecting children born alive from being killed-- even if it the child is born during an abortion. The bill now goes to the White House for President George W. Bush's signature. The Senate passed the bill unanimously and was passed by the House in March.
The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act would amend the legal definitions of "person," "human being," "child," and "individual" to include a live birth that has occurred as part of an abortion. Supporters of the law noted numerous documented instances of children born during abortions who were left to die or were smothered by doctors.
Oh, I don't think I can convince you if you don't see what has been happening because of this administration, but I can give you a couple of facts.
Funding of abortions overseas was stopped in one of the first actions that President Bush took when he took office.
In his decision on stem cell research which stopped the murder of any more human beings, President Bush referred to embryos as living human beings.
He has only been in office a year and a half, and has already done more to slow the culture of death than any President since Roe v. Wade. The level of debate has been raised to the point where we, who are opposed to abortion are not called 'right wing extremists' as a matter of course.
Things are changing, and this decision is further evidence of it, whether you are 'convinced' or not.
I WANT to be convinced, but when I look around at my family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, society, I think its going to take a lot more than any single politician, especially one who always tests the wind on those times when he haltingly gives support to the unborn.
Makes sense.
If I were looking only at the society around me, and looking at President Bush in his own power, I would be discouraged as well.
But I am not because I am one of the millions of Americans praying for him daily, and convinced that he is in the position of leadership he is because God has placed him there.
If you see him as a politician who is guided by the winds of popular opinion, we are not even close to being on the same page, which is why you will never be convinced by what I say, regardless of the strength of my arguments.
George W. Bush is a strong Pro-life President, and is acknowledged as such by Pro-life groups such as Right to Life. They see what is there, and who he really is. Do you?
I don't see it, but I pray you're right and I'm wrong.
You gotta be kidding. Or are you really that ill informed?
I wonder if there's a video of Hillary's face during the vote. I wonder how many just stayed silent.
I'm looking forward to finding out the disposition of children born alive at abortuaries. Who will own them?
Will they be given to the State since it's the State in this regard -- and not the mother, not the father and certainly not the abortionist -- who recognize them ... Hey Presto! ... as persons?
Surely it's not the woman's fault her abortionist was careless ... just as she has no responsibility for her child if she, her sex partner or her rapist were careless in preventing or killing the child by practicing Safe Sex.
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