Don't Mess with the Partial Birth Abortion Decision!

Don’t Mess with the Partial Birth Abortion Decision
Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008
Let us check out the background on this with Dr. Dobson: “Thanks to “Focus on the Family” radio program transcript: “The U.S. Supreme Court handed down an incredibly important ruling on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 upholding the ban on partial-birth abortion, which had been signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003… A majority of justices have recognized what most Americans have long known:

“There is no constitutional right to slay a healthy, nearly-born baby by stabbing it in the back of the head and vacuuming out its brains, all without even anesthetizing the child… (This is infanticide.) Legislation to ban it was first introduced in Congress in 1995. It was passed three times and twice vetoed by the then-President Clinton…. This ruling reminds us that elections matter….

“Let me end with is deeply felt comment. One man, President Bill Clinton, preserved the legality of partial-birth abortion when it was struck down three times by Democrats and Republicans alike. As a result, this procedure, which is one part abortion and three parts infanticide, continued unchecked for twelve more years, Bill Clinton’s legacy will be forever stained by the blood of precious babies who were subjugated to unimaginable horror…. By contrast, one man – President George W. Bush, the most pro-life president in United States history – has acted to protect children from the barbarity of partial-birth abortion… May 2007, Dr. James C. Dobson

After the Court’s narrow decision, angry politicians rose to defend the procedure.

Senator Hillary Clinton (D N.Y.) “This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman’s right to choose and recognized the importance of women’s health. Today’s decision blatantly defies the courts recent decision in 2000 striking down a state partial-birth abortion law because of its failure to provide an exception for the health of the mother. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roe vs. Wade in 1973, this issue is complex and highly personal; the rights and lives of women must be taken into account. It is precisely this erosion or our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Judge Alito.”

Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “I strongly disagree with today’s Supreme Court ruling, which dramatically departs from previous precedents safeguarding the health of pregnant women. As Justice Ginsburg emphasized in her dissenting opinion, this ruling signals an alarming willingness on the part of the conservative majority to disregard its prior rulings respecting a woman’s medical concerns and the very personal decision between the doctor and patient. I am extremely concerned that this ruling will embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to restrict a woman’s right to choose, and that the conservative Supreme Court justices will for other opportunities to erode Roe vs. Wade, which is established federal law and a matter of equal rights for women.”

Former New York City Mayor presidential candidate CINOP Rudy Giuliani appears to share the same affliction of trying to have it both ways. Immediately after the ruling, the former mayor said: “The Supreme Court reached the correct conclusion in upholding the ban on partial-birth abortion. I agree with it.”
Yet back in 2000, when CINOP Giuliani was running for the Senate in N.Y., he said:
“I would vote to preserve that option (of partial-birth abortion) for women.”
CINOP Senator John Kerry voted against the ban six times as a senator.
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