Breaking News: Representatives from the ACLU have announced that the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals has upheld Pandora Leftwitch’s right to kill her 2 month-old baby girl. In a unanimous decision, the court stated that she could have legally obtained a partial birth abortion a few months earlier anyway, and as such there seemed to be “…little difference between then and now.”

If the phony news bite above seems farfetched, consider that two separate courts have ruled that President Bush’s partial birth abortion ban is unconstitutional. The Eighth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals have both ruled against the most defenseless in our society.

If children can be slaughtered like livestock all the way into the third trimester, how far are we from the point in which a child can be euthanized shortly after birth? Child euthanasia is already legal in The Netherlands under extreme circumstances. In a partial birth abortion, the child is outside of the womb with the exception of its head. The child lies mere inches from live birth, but instead suffers a death worthy of a Medieval torture chamber.

For those of you who do not fully understand what happens during this grisly procedure, it is thus…

An abortionist (I refuse to call them “doctors”) delivers the child feet-first, all except the head, which is still inside the mother. The child is alive and conscious, and quite capable of feeling pain. The abortionist then punctures the base of the child’s skull with a sharp instrument (usually a pair of surgical scissors) and shoves a vacuum tube into the wound. Lastly, the abortionist sucks the child’s brain out through the tube while it spasms in excruciating pain as it dies. The child’s remains are disposed of as medical waste. No grave. No marker. No mourning by a loving family. A human child. Medical waste.

If I walk outside and kill someone by stabbing him in the head with a pair of scissors, I’d be rightly regarded as a psychopathic killer. If however, I was a woman with an unwanted pregnancy, I could conspire with an abortionist to murder a defenseless child. And with the ban repealed, I could do so with impunity.

It becomes even more nightmarish when one considers the number of partial birth abortions that take place. The following text is from the National Right to Life website:

Partial-birth abortions are performed thousands of times annually on healthy babies of healthy mothers. In 1997, Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers (1997), estimated that the method was used 3,000 to 5,000 times annually. “In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along, Fitzsimmons said.” (The New York Times, Feb. 26, 1997, p. A11.)

In regards to all abortions, forty-eight percent of women who have an abortion have already had at least one previous abortion. This is especially disturbing because it reveals the fact that many people regard the killing of an unborn child to be no different than using a condom or other contraceptive. This callous disregard for the sanctity of life is a good yardstick to measure the speed at which our culture is sliding into the sewer. On average, unmarried women have 572 abortions for every 1000 live childbirths.

The killing of children is also a lucrative business. Planned Parenthood works diligently to pass itself off as a women’s health organization. But abortion generates millions of dollars per year in revenue, and no one performs more abortions than Planned Parenthood. In fiscal year 2004, it is estimated (see links below) that Planned Parenthood made one hundred and four million dollars on 244,628 abortions.

Perhaps Norma McCorvey summed it up best in January of 2005:
"America is slowly dying of a holocaust of abortion that began with Roe vs. Wade."

In case you don’t know, in 1973 Norma McCorvey was known as “Jane Roe” in the Roe vs. Wade court case that legalized the slaughter of the unborn. It’s also worth noting that in spite of the fact that her case paved the way for legalized abortion, she elected not to abort her baby. She is now a leading opponent of abortion. Amazing, the changes that occur when you allow God into your life.

With the President’s ban on partial birth abortion presently derailed, the door is once again open for innocent children to die in non-medical, unnecessary partial birth abortions. Certainly a woman whose life is threatened by a pregnancy should be able to have the option of a clinical abortion to save her own life. But to allow the death of our most vulnerable for the sake of convenience reduces the value of human life immeasurably. Hopefully the fight over the ban will eventually make its way to the Supreme Court. With the Alito confirmation, there is real hope that partial birth abortion can become a nightmare of the past, rather than a threat to our future.

Related Reading:
Post-Abortive Woman Supports Parental Consent:
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8993

How lying marketers sold Roe v. Wade to America: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42462

Norma McCorvey (Roe) Laments 'Holocaust of Abortion': http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\\Culture\\archive\\200501\\CUL20050119a.html

Abortionist 'flushed babies down toilet': http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42495

Abortion Facts (NRLC):
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/keyfactsPBA.htm

Abortion Facts (Abortion73):
http://abortionismurder.org/HTML/II-A-abortion_statistics.html

Netherlands Plans Expansion of Child Euthanasia Policy:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170812,00.html

Abortion Images from Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (Warning! Very graphic):
http://abortionno.org/abortion_no.html

Planned Parenthood: More Abortions, Fewer Clinics:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200501\SPE20050118a.html



Alan Burkhart is a freelance political writer, cross-country trucker, and proud citizen of the reddest of the Red States - Mississippi. You can reach him via e-mail at: alan@alanburkhart.com or by visiting his website: www.alanburkhart.com.