whereiswaldo's Journal: Partial Birth Abortion

I don't agree with everything that Jerry Falwell says, but this letter struck a chord with me. I am passionately against partial birth abortion. I agree that a woman should have a right to abort within the first trimester (3 months) of pregnancy. After that, however, I fail to see the reasoning for late term abortion. It is unhuman, grisley, and is cold blooded murder in my books. That the law disagrees in the USA is mind blowing.

As Falwell says, more and more babies are being aborted because of simple defects like malformed feet, a cleft lip, etc. WTF? Talk about people being desensitized.

Do yourself a favour. If you don't yet know what partial birth abortion is, read up on it from the side opposed to it and I almost guarantee you will also be against it. Don't be fooled by proponent's using euphamisms to cover up the grusome nature of the procedure.

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Falwell Confidential

Date: June 4, 2004
From: Jerry Falwell

WE ARE LOSING GROUND IN THE ABORTION BATTLE

It is apparent that the culture of death is intensifying its
stranglehold on
the culture.

This week, a federal judge ruled that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Act
(PABA), which was signed into law by President Bush last November, is
unconstitutional. President Bush's signing of this important law came
after
Congress overwhelmingly passed the legislation. But since its signing,
the
PABA has been the target of hysterical abortion-rights groups that want
absolutely no limitations on that disingenuous catchphrase - "a woman's
right to choose."

Furthermore, a British study has revealed that growing numbers of women
are
becoming so calloused in terms of abortion that they are choosing to
abort
their unborn children simply because they are discovered to have
medical
problems such as Down's syndrome, malformed feet, and even cleft
lips/palates. The culture of abortion has brought about a sense of
designer
fashion in terms of unborn babies; if the baby doesn't fit the parent's
desires, it is cast off like an out-of-style suit.

THE PABA

This week, Federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton predictably fell in line with
the
radical abortion-rights community when she ruled that the PABA
establishes
an "undue burden" on women seeking abortion. The Clinton appointee
said the
PABA is "unconstitutionally vague" because it does not include a health
exception for women seeking a partial-birth abortion. Her ruling
protects
for now 900 Planned Parenthood clinics which carry out such abortions.

Abortion-rights supporters want women to have the unregulated ability
to
determine that they need an abortion. A health exception in terms of
partial-birth abortion allows doctors to formulate any number of
trumped up
reasons to call for abortion for a patient wanting one. A so-called
health
exemption would essentially render powerless the partial-birth abortion
ban.

Following Judge Hamilton's PABA ruling, Wendy Wright, senior policy
director
for Concerned Women for America said the judge was "pre-disposed" to
such a
ruling. She also noted that the American Medical Association has said
this
especially barbaric type of abortion procedure is never medically
necessary.

She said, "Judge Hamilton did not allow key, relevant testimony such as
the
pain felt by unborn babies and records that would prove that
partial-birth
abortions are never medically necessary."

Roberta Combs, president of Christian Coalition, added that "judicial
tyranny" was responsible for the ruling. Identifying the leftist
agenda of
this judge, she highlighted the fact that Judge Hamilton "is the same
judge
who (last year) allowed a San Francisco-area school district to force
school
children into 'becoming Muslims' for two weeks as part of their world
history unit on Islam."

Radical judicial activists like Judge Hamilton are imposing their own
views
of America on the nation. It is apparent that their perspectives on
life
and liberty are far different than most Americans, and certainly poles
apart
from our Founders' beliefs.

Witnessing these types of irrational rulings makes clear the importance
of
electing a pro-life president who will place responsible judges on our
federal courts. I believe that a vote for a presidential candidate who
favors abortion rights is an outright betrayal of the unborn.

ABORTION AND THE DISABLED

According to 2002 statistics recently released by the Office for
National
Statistics in England and Wales, handicapped children in the womb are
facing
the increasing risk of abortion. The organization found that abortion
of
Down's syndrome babies elevated 17 percent, from 690 in 2002 over 591
in
2001. In fact, the study found that more Down's babies were actually
aborted in 2002 than those that were born with the disease.

Nuala Scarisbrick of the British pro-life group LIFE said these
increases in
abortion statistics are troubling, especially to people who are living
fulfilled lives despite their disabilities.

"The message is being sent out to disabled people that they should not
have
been born," Ms. Scarisbrick said in a statement published on The Drudge
Report.

Learning of this report caused me to recall the book "Another Season,"
by
renowned football coach Gene Stallings who recounted the unexpected
blessings that came into his life through the life of his son Johnny,
who
has Down's syndrome. In addition, as a minister of a large church, I
can
frankly report that I am aware of countless parents who say they would
not
change a thing about their children born with disabilities.

The permissive culture of death has made it acceptable to simply kill
off an
unborn baby that requires additional attention. What a tragically
selfish
perspective on life this is.

WHAT CAN BE DONE?

The most important thing that can be done is for pro-life Americans to
get
off of their couches and out of their church pews in order to become
proactive in terms of speaking out for the unborn.

Volunteer in a local home for unborn mothers, start a church-based
pro-life
organization, bring pro-life speakers into area schools, call your
lawmakers
to encourage them to vote for pro-life legislation. And most
importantly,
vote only for legislators and national leaders who revere life for the
unborn. Let's join together to take the momentum away from those who
have
contempt for the unborn!

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