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Momentous Victory for Innocent Human Life

Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back. Proverbs 24:11 ¶

Among the most obviously evil and gruesome abortion practices is the partial-birth abortion. According to Lifenews, an Ohio abortion practitioner has dropped his challenge to a state law banning partial-birth abortions. Martin Haskell, who runs abortion businesses in Cincinnati and Dayton and is credited with inventing the partial-birth abortion procedure, had filed suit against the law.
Brad Mattes, executive director of Life Issues Institute, called the development a "momentous victory for innocent human life and pro-lifers everywhere."

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So-called "Partial-birth" abortion is performed in the second and third trimesters and entails (1) inducing a breech delivery with forceps, (2) delivering the legs, arms and torso only, (3) puncturing the back of the skull with scissors or a trochar, (4) inserting a suction curette into the skull, (4) suctioning the contents of the skull so as to collapse it, (5) completing the delivery. A partial breech delivery is not considered a "birth" at common law, where it is the passage of the head that is essential.

Instructional material by Haskell detailing the debachery of late term and partial-birth abortions. The procedures are illustrated by National Right to Life (click here).

The only poll of physicians on the subject we have seen was conducted by Medical Economics and published in October, 2002, asking the question, "Should the procedure that's often called 'partial-birth abortion' remain legal?" Among all physicians, only 27% were for keeping the method legal, while 44% said it should not be legal (a plurality), and 28% weren't sure. Among the obstretrician-gynecologists, however, there was a clear majority of 57% for the ban, and only 33% for keeping the method legal. Medical Economics Senior Editor Dorothy L. Pennachio wrote that among various medical specialties, "Ob/gyns are least likely to be on the fence -- only 10 percent say they're not sure; they're also most likely (57 percent) to believe the procedure should be outlawed." (source: National Right to Life)

Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I'm pleased that all of you have joined us as the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 becomes the law of the land. (Applause.) For years, a terrible form of violence has been directed against children who are inches from birth, while the law looked the other way. Today, at last, the American people and our government have confronted the violence and come to the defense of the innocent child. President Bush, Nov. 2003

Posted by tim at July 1, 2004 8:57 PM

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