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Images and text courtesy of National Right to
Life. Published by rosaryfilms of Secret of
the Rosary Films. The pictures in the video
are not fiction. The partial birth abortion
is not a rare procedure. It is, essentially,
a variant of the even more common and equally
gruesome Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)
procedure. There are in fact absolutely no
obstetrical situations encountered in this
country which require a partially delivered
human fetus to be destroyed to preserve the
life or health of the mother (Dr. Pamela
Smith, Senate Hearing Record, p.82: Partial
Birth Abortion Ban Medical Testimony). People
like Jill Stanek have exposed a practice, in
which children marked for abortion are born
alive and then killed. This is exactly where
the logic of partial-birth abortion leads. On
November 5, 2003, President George W. Bush
signed into law the Partial-birth Abortion
Ban Act of 2003. On April 18, 2007 the
Supreme Court announced its decision to
uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion. The
procedure in question is properly called
"partial-birth abortion" because, as even
secular sources acknowledge, it requires the
doctor to deliver the unborn child partially
from the uterus, feet first, leaving the
baby's head inside the womb. The doctor then
uses scissors and a hollow needle to empty
the skull of its contents. The unborn baby's
head then collapses and the doctor removes
the dead baby entirely from the mother's
body. Given the nature of the procedure, the
congressmen who drafted legislation to
prohibit it, the "Partial-Birth Abortion Act
of 1995", defined the procedure as follows:
"an abortion in which the person performing
the abortion partially vaginally delivers a
living fetus before killing the fetus and
completing the delivery". The doctors who
perform this barbaric act and those who seek
to justify it attempt to hide its nature by
describing it euphemistically as "intact
dilation and evacuation/extraction" or as
"intrauterine cranial decompression.
"Physicians Ad Hoc Coalition for Truth"
(PHACT), a group of more than 300 medical
specialists organized to counter the
misinformation provided by the abortion
industry of the United States, pointed out:
"Partial-birth abortion is never medically
necessary to protect the health of a woman or
to protect her future fertility; in fact, the
procedure can pose grave dangers to the
woman". Many people argue that the
anesthetics used in the process kill the
baby, so death to the child is painless.
However the American Society of
Anesthesiologists testified to Congress that
this is simply not true. On July 11, 1995,
American Medical News (AMA's official
journal) submitted the transcript of a
tape-recorded interview with abortionist Dr.
Martin Haskell to the House Judiciary
Committee in which he admitted: "...the
majority of fetuses aborted this way (partial
birth abortion) are alive until the end of
the procedure." As disturbing as this sounds,
these are the facts. In this country medical
doctors are partially delivering babies and
then killing them. These babies are inches
from being born. Many could be born and
placed directly in the loving arms of
childless couples for adoption. Instead, they
are cruelly killed.
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