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Now that the Senate has voted 93-0 to allow the Ban on Partial Birth Abortion to go forward to conference committee, the abortion lobby is cranking up its efforts to kill the bill by utilizing a campaign of lies and misinformation. According to Christine Carmouche, spokesperson for Laptoplobbyist.com, “Probably the biggest whopper came today from Senator Barbara Boxer’s (D-CA) testimony before the full Senate.” Boxer claimed on several occasions that when the court decided Roe, maybe 5,000 women a year died from botched abortions prior to the Roe decision. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA); however was immediately able to refute that...

"I have fetus dreams, we all do here: dreams of abortions one after the other; of buckets of blood splashed on the walls; trees full of crawling fetuses," reported Sallie Tisdale of her time as a nurse in an abortion facility. Writing in Harper’s magazine, she told of dreaming that two men grabbed her and dragged her away. "Let’s do an abortion," they said with a sickening leer, and I began to scream, plunged into a vision of sucking, scraping pain, of being spread and torn by impartial instruments that do only what they are bidden. I woke from this...

I am personally responsible for 75,000 abortions. This legitimises my credentials to speak to you with some authority on the issue. I was one of the founders of the National Association for the Repeal of the Abortion Laws (NARAL) in the U.S. in 1968. A truthful poll of opinion then would have found that most Americans were against permissive abortion. Yet within five years we had convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to issue the decision which legalised abortion throughout America in 1973 and produced virtual abortion on demand up to birth. How did we do this? It is important to...