Well, it finally happened. Partial birth abortion has finally been outlawed. In his speech, President Bush said during the signing cerimony yesterday, “In the course of the congressional debate, the facts became clear. Each year, thousands of partial birth abortions are committed. As Doctor C. Everett Koop, the pediatrician and former Surgeon General has pointed out, the majority of partial birth abortions are not required by medical emergency. As Congress has found, the practice is widely regarded within the medical profession as unnecessary, not only cruel to the child, but harmful to the mother, and a violation of medical ethics.”
People are lining up to fight this, based on a ‘women’s right to choose.’ It makes no sense to me. They say it’s okay to murder a child during labor, but if the same woman chose to do it 10 seconds after labor she’d be in jail. What difference does a couple of inches of birth canal make? If it’s illegal to kill a baby right after the baby is born, why should it not be illegal to kill the baby while it’s in the process of being born?
Of course there’s already several cases lined up in the court system to challenge this new law. CNN Headline News said that the issue is bound to reach the Supreme Court but it’ll probably be after the presidential election next year.
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