Partial-birth abortion should be banned.Byline: Gayle Atteberry For The Register-Guard It is truly amazing that anyone will defend the gruesome partial-birth abortion partial-birth abortion n. A late-term abortion, especially one in which a viable fetus is partially delivered through the cervix before being extracted. Not in technical use. procedure. This method of death is so brutal that if humane societies were to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose unwanted puppies in this manner, we would have banned it long ago - and rightly so. Yet a small minority of Oregonians - including The Register-Guard (editorial, Oct. 29) - repeating the abortion rights mantra, feel compelled to defend this barbaric abortion procedure. In editorializing against the ban, The Register-Guard grumbled about the legislation not having a provision for women who have a medical emergency. The Register-Guard would have been wise to read the bill before complaining about it! The bill plainly states that the ban "does not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder A physical disorder (as a medical term) is often used as a term in contrast to a mental disorder, in an attempt to differentiate medical disorders which have an available objective mechanical test (such as chemical tests or brain scans), from those disorders which have no , physical illness or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself." While an exception is made for women who are threatened by life-endangering circumstances, a woman does not have to kill her baby via the partial-birth abortion procedure in order to save her life. In the partial-birth abortion, the premature infant premature infant Prematurity, premie; preterm infant Obstetrics An infant born before the 37th wk of gestation and after the 20th wk, who weighs 500–2500 g. See Very-low birth weight. is fully delivered - all except for the head. The child is a mere 2 or 3 inches from being born when her skull is punctured with scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends and then her brain is suctioned out. How does killing the baby, once it is delivered so far, save the life of the mother? Why not complete the delivery and care for the baby, as we do so routinely in other premature deliveries? Misinformation mis·in·form tr.v. mis·in·formed, mis·in·form·ing, mis·in·forms To provide with incorrect information. mis abounds about how many partial-birth abortions are done annually, and exactly why they are done. However, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. those who actually do them, the partial-birth abortion method is performed thousands of times yearly, most often on healthy babies of healthy mothers. In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee Judiciary Committee may refer to:
The Register-Guard grumbled that lawmakers are not doctors and have no business interfering in medicine. Lawmakers are not all bankers, foreign diplomats or farmers, either. Yet they regularly pass laws governing these issues based on what they believe is best public policy. An overwhelming 70 percent of Americans think it is bad public policy to puncture the skulls of babies who are in the process of being born. Lawmakers agree. Now that the ban has passed Congress, the bill is headed for the president's desk, where he has promised to sign it. We could only hope that would be the end of this abhorrent ab·hor·rent adj. 1. Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent. 2. Feeling repugnance or loathing. 3. Archaic Being strongly opposed. abortion practice, but extreme abortion supporters have promised to challenge the law. It will then be up to the Supreme Court to review the law. The question the Supreme Court justices will have before them is: Does Roe vs. Wade really guarantee a right to deliver a premature infant to within inches of complete birth, and then kill her? Lord, help us when they answer. Gayle Atteberry of Eugene is executive director of Oregon Right to Life. |
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