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Court
Upholds Constitutionality of Partial Birth Abortion Ban
Bans
Brutal
Procedure Killing Unborn During The Process Of Delivery
First
Ban On Abortions Since Roe. Supported By 70
Percent of Americans.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2007
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE
President Don Nelson:
The
Supreme Court today rejected a legal challenge and
affirmed the constitutionality of the federal Partial-Birth
Abortion Ban Act.
The decision allows the law to go into effect for
the first time since it was signed by President Bush in
2003-and after 8 years of hearings which found that Partial
Birth Abortion is never necessary to save the life
of the mother and, after 2 vetoes by President Bill
Clinton.
Partial
birth abortion is a gruesome procedure which shocks our
sensibilities and numbs our senses.
The
unborn child is killed inches from birth during the
process of delivery by poking a hole in the head of the
unborn child and removing (suctioning out) the
unborn’s brains.
Writing
for a 5-4 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote,
"The Act proscribes a method of abortion in which a
fetus is killed just inches before completion of the
birth process.. Congress determined that the abortion
methods it proscribed had a 'disturbing similarity to
the killing of a newborn infant.'" The
majority ruled that a general ban on the method is
permissible and does not violate the general
"abortion right" enunciated in past decisions
such as Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v.
Planned Parenthood (1992).
The
act is supported by 70 percent of Americans,
many who support the choice to abort, but reject this
barbaric and inhumane procedure which to them borders on
infanticide. While
it is unclear whether or not this means the eventual
dismantling of Roe, it is the first step in the process
of bringing abortion policy in line with public views
and a step away from the radical doctrine of the Supreme
Court embodied in Roe, Casey and Carhart.
That doctrine, supported by abortion advocates,
says there are no protections for any unborn child, not
even from abortions which kill the unborn inches from
birth.
Today
the court is upholding a decision which draws a bright
line between abortion and infanticide.
Abortion advocates of this gruesome procedure
shows how radical and at odds their abortion policy is
with the American people who are revulsed by Partial
Birth Abortion.
Please
see Media
Advisory On Recycled Partial Birth Abortion Myths
April 18, 2004 http://www.nevadalife.org/pressroom/pr040418.html
for answers to Partial Birth Abortion Myths
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