Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments by Alcorn Randy

Author:Alcorn, Randy [Alcorn, Randy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2009-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

28f. Abortionists, feminists, a past president of the United States, many congressmen, and the Supreme Court have defended partial-birth abortion, one of the most chilling medical atrocities in human history.

President Clinton vetoed a 1995 bill that would have banned partial-birth abortions.514 Some in Congress vowed to override the veto. In September 1996, they finally failed to gain the necessary votes to do so. At that point the U.S. government became an accessory to a procedure so gruesome it would horrify most people living in the most primitive cultures. While killing children has been legal since the judicial branch's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, this was the first direct endorsement of the United States government's executive and legislative branches of what is, without question, infanticide.

On June 28, 2000, in Carhartv. Nebraska , the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a state law preventing late term abortions. 515 The Nebraska law required that viable babies be delivered alive rather than deliberately and violently killed just before birth. Dr. Leroy Carhart, the late-term abortionist cited in the previous section, challenged Nebraska's right to keep him from performing partial-birth abortions. The Supreme Court sided with Carhart.

In his dissent, Justice Anthony Scalia compared this historic decision to the 1857 Dred Scott ruling, which declared that blacks could not be citizens and were not worthy to have judicial protection of their lives. 516 The most chilling aspect of the decision is that, in the face of thirty states that had passed laws restricting partial-birth abortion, the Supreme Court implied that states have no right to protect the lives of children who are in the process of being born.

The accompanying illustration 517 accurately depicts the process of partial-birth abortion. Keep in mind that the child pictured here is no more nor less valuable than smaller children who die in earlier abortions.

In a partial-birth (also called D & X) abortion, the child is delivered live until only the head remains in the birth canal. The abortionist then uses a pair of scissors to rip a wound in the base of the living child's skull. He inserts a tube into the wound and sucks the helpless child's brain out with a vacuum pump. The now dead infant's skull collapses, and the body is removed the rest of the way from the mother. Dr. Carhart's testimony was about this kind of procedure.

If a veterinarian performed a partial-birth abortion on a dog at his clinic, not only animal rights activists, but the media and general public would be outraged. The fact that it is being done on human beings—and that Congress could not muster enough votes to overturn the president's veto on their efforts to make it illegal—documents the moral slippery slope of abortion. It also demonstrates the shadow of evil that hangs over not only the abortion industry, but our political leaders and our nation.

Syndicated columnist Linda Bowles wrote of this episode,

When the history of the rise and fall of our nation is finally written, it may well be recorded

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