Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Has Saved 11,000 Lives
(LifeNews.com) For the past five years, every dawn has brought additional evidence of the fact that Planned Parenthood and its allies in the abortion industry cannot be trusted to tell the truth about the one thing they should know well – abortion. Just over five years ago, on April 18, 2007, the Supreme Court announced its opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart, holding that the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was constitutional. Since then, we have lived in a world where partial-birth abortions have been illegal in the United States under federal law (and now many state laws).
Yet the most valuable part of the Gonzales opinion may not be its upholding of the PBA Ban, but the fact that it called the abortion industry’s bluff. And history has now demonstrated that Planned Parenthood and its allies were holding a joker.
The Gonzales decision held that the federal ban on partial-birth abortions, except where necessary to save a woman’s life, was facially constitutional – meaning that generally speaking the ban was constitutionally sound. Opponents of the ban, including Planned Parenthood and their allies, had argued strenuously that the law was unconstitutional because it lacked a “health” exception. The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s de facto research arm, claimed that roughly 2,200 (probably a low estimate as Ramesh Ponnoru explains at the link) occurred in a representative year prior to the ban – almost all of which were performed because they were necessary to protect a woman’s health.
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Yet the most valuable part of the Gonzales opinion may not be its upholding of the PBA Ban, but the fact that it called the abortion industry’s bluff. And history has now demonstrated that Planned Parenthood and its allies were holding a joker.
The Gonzales decision held that the federal ban on partial-birth abortions, except where necessary to save a woman’s life, was facially constitutional – meaning that generally speaking the ban was constitutionally sound. Opponents of the ban, including Planned Parenthood and their allies, had argued strenuously that the law was unconstitutional because it lacked a “health” exception. The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s de facto research arm, claimed that roughly 2,200 (probably a low estimate as Ramesh Ponnoru explains at the link) occurred in a representative year prior to the ban – almost all of which were performed because they were necessary to protect a woman’s health.
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Wow , to think for a baby born breach is safer for the mom, then to be born head first.Right?
ReplyDeleteLet us say a dog was shown on tv where her puppies were delivered breach and the vet was killing them with the same procedure as the partial birth. You and I both know, these people who are for this procedure for innocent babies would be screaming ,how inhuman this was for dogs. Don't get me wrong this procedure is barbaric no matter who the recipiant is.