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For years the pro-choice crowd defended partial-birth abortion as an absolute last resort, certainly not a decision any woman or her doctor would take lightly. But at least one practitioner of the grisly procedure discussed the topic recently in almost matter-of-fact tones – and dared Attorney General John Ashcroft to prosecute him under the new law banning the operation. NewsMax.com's Fr. Mike Reilly reports that Dr. Warren Hern described a partial-birth abortion he performed for MSN.com readers on Oct. 22, 2003. "Earlier this year, I began an abortion on a young woman who was 17 weeks pregnant," recalled Hern. "Because...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another 9-11 date with death -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com What do you call a country that sentences its prisoners to death by starvation and dehydration? Barbaric, inhumane perhaps? Fasts, even hunger strikes, often are self-imposed for periods of time. However, no one in his right mind passes up fluids. Death by dehydration is a painful, agonizing and arduous process that takes 10 to 14 days. In addition to feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst, the skin, lips and tongue crack. The nose bleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes....