Hang 'Em High By Marsha West

"[It's] so gruesome that its use can be traumatic even for the physicians and medical staff who perform it ... partial birth abortion so closely borders on infanticide that 30 States have attempted to ban it."- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (dissenting opinion)

The procedure known as partial-birth abortion (PBA) is immoral.  Every American should be outraged that this procedure was ever allowed in a civilized country such as ours.  If you've been in a coma and haven't heard about this grizzly procedure allow me explain.  To "save the life of the mother," a living, breathing, baby is partially delivered, then scissors are jammed into its skull to make a hole large enough for a suction tube.  The tube is inserted into the hole and the baby's brains are sucked out causing the skull to collapse.  Sounds like something right out of a Hollywood horror flick, doesn't it?  I doubt that even Hollywood would go this far to shock their audience. 

The Alan Guttmacher Institute - an affiliate of Planned Parenthood - published a survey of abortion providers that estimated that 2,200 partial-birth abortions were performed in the year 2000…. in America.  Why would a woman intentionally allow a doctor to do a procedure as unspeakable as PBA to her own flesh, bone and blood?  Ignorance?  Desperation?  Selfishness?  What?  The sad reality is, a pregnant woman who agrees to a live birth abortion has lost her sense of right and wrong. 

In 2003 opponents of the procedure succeeded in getting the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act signed into law; both the House and the Senate passed it and President George W. Bush signed it into law on November 5.

In early 2004, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National Abortion Federation, and a group of abortion doctors in Nebraska challenged the ban in United States District Courts in Nebraska, California and New York. All three District Courts ruled the ban unconstitutional.  Their respective appellate courts declared the ban unconstitutional as well. The U.S. Department of Justice requested that the Supreme Court review the lower court's decision. The high court will consider the cases out of Nebraska and California in the Fall of 2006.  The issue of partial-birth abortion will now be put in the spotlight.  "The high court not only will determine whether Congress acted appropriately in enacting the ban, but the high court also has a critical opportunity to bring to an end -- once and for all -- the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion," said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice.


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