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| This is an incredibly difficult topic to not only read, but to write about, as it sparks extreme emotions on both sides of the isle. As a compassionate conservative, I cannot imagine or comprehend how any human being can possibly view partial birth abortion as a form of birth control. Contrary to what pro-abortionists want you to believe, there have been NO partial birth abortions performed to save the woman's life or health, and most of them are performed on healthy, viable babies. Birth control should be either a pill you take every morning, or a condom your partner uses, or both--to be on the safe side. It should not involve dragging a premature, but healthy, baby from a healthy woman's womb by his/her feet and stabbing it in the back of the head with a pair of surgical scissors. No, THAT is murder, or in legal terms, INFANTICIDE. Any responsible woman who wants to be sexually active should know that having sex, by its very nature, causes pregnancy (among other things). Any self-respecting under-age female should "just say NO." She wants to finish high school and even go to college, and perhaps even have a career, or at least fall in love and get MARRIED before thinking about having sex. Within one month of missing her period, a woman should at least suppose there is something amis with her body, and buy a pregnancy test, or go to a free clinic and have one performed. If pregnant, she has up to another two months to decide whether she should abort the pregnancy, carry the baby to full term and give the child up for adoption, or have the baby and raise it herself. If she doesn't know, she should get advice, whether from her family, her boyfriend (and/or the father), or even an advice columnist--as a last resort. If a woman is SO confused about what to do that she can't decide within two months, she has no business having sex in the first place. |
| Partial Birth Abortion, Part 1, posted on site: 11/6/03 |
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| It's funny how pro-abortionists will say anything to defend what they call their "Constitutional Right" to murder a baby. Roe vs. Wade, the case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972, resulted in that court's decision to legalize abortion. This ruling had nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution--courts do not have the power to amend the Constitution. It was simply a Supreme Court ruling. For legalized abortion to be a Constitutional Right, it must be introduced into and passed by Congress as an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and approved by EACH state in the union. Neither of these things has EVER happened. So, murder of children is not a "Constitutional Right." In fact, another historical document, the Declaration of Independence, actually states that people have the "...right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Here are some statistics, from the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov). This information is from the year 1999, the latest year this type of data is available. I must say, though, that I was surprised the CDC compiles this data--it's as if our country treats pregnancy as a disease! In 1999, the reported number of legal abortions was 861,789, not including data from these four states: Alaska, California, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma, which stopped reporting this data. For the 37 states plus New York City, which collected specific data on procedures used for abortions, the total was 614,840 reported legal abortions for 1999. Of that 614,840 total, 605,687 (98.5%) of them were performed using the "Curettage" procedure (includes dilation and extraction). Of those 605,687 legal abortions performed using the Curettage method, 533,813 (88.1%) were reportedly performed during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (first trimester), and 71,874 (11.9%) were performed during the second and third trimesters (collectively). A further breakdown reveals that 37,990 Curettage abortions were performed during the 13th-15th weeks of pregnancy, 25,732 were performed during the 16th-20th weeks of pregnancy, and 8,152 were performed after the 20th week of pregnancy! (www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5109a1.htm#tab18) Please view the photographs of aborted babies at the different stages of gestation (http://www.priestsforlife.org/) and determine for yourself whether we should ban this practice or not. As for myself, I believe America could very well have saved 71,874 babies in 1999 and put them up for adoption, instead of spending millions of dollars on fertility methods. NOWHERE IS IT REPORTED THAT ANY OF THE LATE-TERM ABORTIONS PERFORMED IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE 1972 WERE PER-FORMED TO SAVE THE MOTHER'S LIFE OR PROTECT HER HEALTH. |
| Partial Birth Abortion, Part 2, posted 11/12/03 |
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