Partial Birth Abortion

[SuperScout]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Abortion opponents on Tuesday celebrated what will be their first success in imposing a federal ban on a type of abortion. Next up is a fierce legal fight over whether the ban violates a woman's right to end a pregnancy.
The ban on what opponents call partial birth abortion was likely to pass by a wide margin late Tuesday in the Senate. Three weeks ago, the House passed the bill with a 281-142 vote, and Senate action would send it to President Bush, who strongly supports the ban. The legislation would ban a procedure, generally performed in the second or third trimester, in which a fetus is partially delivered before a doctor punctures the skull.

[The remainder of this questionable medical procedure has been omitted in the interests of common decency. I think this bill is long overdue.]

[phuloi]

WAY too long in coming! What has it been..26 years? God have mercy!

[BLUEHAWK]

Absolutely, far too long in coming, and it must stand.

Liberal congress members already are saying, "This will put civilization back to the dark alleys of 50 years ago... etc etc etc."

[SuperScout]

By their convoluted logic (a rather quaint oxymoron. isn't it?), the liberals try to make us believe that partial birth abortions were happening in alleys 50 years ago. Won't work. Hopefully, this bill has been written so that it will stand the test of the court system, to which it will inevitably be subjected. The truly tragic part of this situation is that partial birth abortions are elective surgery procedures, not medcially driven necessities. Wonder what these cretins who have sucked the brains out of little babies will claim as their job professions when they attempt to enter the Pearly Gates!

[BLUEHAWK]

Yup, it was Feinstein of course, going on again... but the Senate majority leader also got on just afterward to clearly state that PBA is NOT something taught in medical school nor generally accepted therapeutic practise among physicians... pretty much took the wind right outa THAT ole sail & saw too... nice to see some real umph behind the scientific opposition finally... since it weren't sufficient grounds just for the sake of morality alone.

Remember years ago Scout, when that decent feller hosted that first video of what abortion actually consists of, and what a baby in the womb actually looks like at various very early stages of development?

Hope we don't have to go to seeing brains sucked out to get THIS message permanently and firmly across to the ladies of the NOW.

Out...

[HARDCORE]

SCOUT et al-

"Good question indeed!" What will these people's excuses be when they stand tall before that final gate?

Have these people ever taken the time to look (really look) at the great American kids around them - at play, asleep, at school, etc., and thought what would have happened to those mere babies had those who supported partial birth abortion gotten their own way? The Christmases missed, the birthdays that never were, the looks of amazement when these kids learn new things or tested their wings, and the lost potential for this nation that these kids may have held!! "SAD INDEED...."

VERITAS

[MORTARDUDE]

If anyone opposed to this could view the "procedure" in person or via reorded method, I am sure the opposition would fade quickly. Same goes for abortion. It is one thing to talk of esoteric theories about "unborn babies", but quite another to view the horror that "abortion" entails. The procedures and results are available on the internet, if anyone on here has any doubts about it. As I stated before, my next door neighbors have two small sons, both of whom were given up for adoption by their birth mothers. Both could have easily been "aborted".

Larry

DEO VINDICE

[theoddz]

I'm all for a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body, but when a fetus is that far along, I think that partial birth abortion is wrong and is an abomination.

[SuperScout]

This entire venture into fantasy land began with the so-called right to choose; no such right exists Constitutionally, but only in the expansionist minds of the law clerks who penned Roe vs. Wade. The imputed right to privacy was also a manufactured creation, not genuinely existing, but created out of whole cloth. If a woman had total control over the use of her body, as alleged by the feminists, then the laws against prositution and drug abuse would be oviated. Truth be known, there are no absolute rights as granted by our Constitution, only rights that are tempered by common sense, common decency, and reasonable standards.

PS: thanks all for reading and commenting on this topic; hopefully, we can keep pressure on to keep this new law on the books.

[Seascamp]

Barbaric and inhumane practices are just that, no more no less. It?s always a good day when a someone gets to have a birthday and it?s always a bad day when a someone is killed before they ever have a chance to see the light of day. I applaud this decision as it represents that DC isn?t entirely populated by slope-headed minions of darkness and evil.

Scamp