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Vague Language and Deceptive Tactics Could Cost ‘Wanted’ and ‘Unwanted’ Preborn Children Even More than Americans Might Realize Last week, Operation Rescue reported on the detrimental effect that pro-abortion ballot initiatives in ten separate states will have on children targeted by abortion. Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, sounded the alarm, stating, “If these amendments pass, our nation will be struck by a large-scale slaughter of innocent babies like we’ve never seen before.” But there is a second, equally sinister aim of many of these ballot initiatives. When it comes to law-making, language is everything, and five of these ten...

" It is the very language of Roe that carries the seed of its own possible irrelevance within the next several years. ... After viability, the right of states to regulate or prohibit abortions arise. The court defined legal viability as "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid." ... When Roe was handed down in 1973, the survivability of prematurely born babies was not medically possible before 28 weeks of gestation. Today, babies born after only 20 weeks of gestation routinely survive. .... But radical research may soon reduce that 20 weeks to just a...