Posted on 03/13/2003 12:51:52 PM PST by The FRugitive
"The Senate's passage today of the deceptively named 'partial birth abortion ban' should be a call to action for women's rights supporters everywhere," said National Organization for Women (NOW) President Kim Gandy. "Proponents of this legislation know that the bill's provisions are unconstitutional, based on the Supreme Court's decision in Stenberg v. Carhart. Behind the rhetoric, this bill is really an abortion procedures ban. It's a political game and an attempt to send us back to pre-Roe days when countless women died from illegal abortions."
"You won't find the term 'partial birth abortion' in any medical dictionary—instead try looking for it in the ultraconservative rhetoric manual," Gandy said. "Contrary to what opponents of abortion rights would have you believe, this bill is not about a specific late-term procedure. This bill, like each of its predecessors, is purposely worded so vaguely that it could criminalize even some of the safest and most common abortion procedures after twelve weeks and well before fetal viability."
The abortion procedures ban passed by the Senate, which will soon be taken up in the House of Representatives, is not supported by the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or the American Medical Women's Association. "This legislation has nothing to do with the best interests of medicine or women's health. In fact, this ban does not even include a constitutionally required exception to preserve the health of the woman," Gandy said.
"Senators who otherwise support reproductive rights allowed themselves to be caught up in the political rhetoric instead of standing firm in their commitment to women's rights," Gandy said. "Senators who voted for the abortion procedures ban disappointed voters in their own states and across the country."
Actually members of the human race that have seen what is involved in the procedure have another term for it that is more accurate--"infanticide."
No, I think you can count them. Why don't you. The number isn't nearly as high as you like to pretend it is. Then again, feminazis have never been able to count very well. <barbie>Math is hard!</barbie>
That's OK. The feminist health manual Our Bodies, Ourselves has a diagram of abortion. It has a uterus and an amniotic sack. And you can see the abortion instrument in the diagram. Guess what's missing? The fact that they can't honestly talk about what they are advocting is a sure sign that it isn't good.
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