[Siobhan]

I hope Catholic FReepers and other pro-life FReepers will deluge the Senate with calls, e-mails, faxes, and especially letters by snail mail. Also, let pro-life Senators of your support and prayers.

[Siobhan]

BUMP and ping!

[Siobhan]

Bump and ping!

[Siobhan]

Indexing

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I support you. However, our office holders are Feinstein and Boxer. Need I waste ink? Any suggestions?

[JulieRNR21]

The best hope of ever getting a partial birth abortion ban bill to the President's desk for his signature is to ELECT more GOP SENATORS THIS NOVEMBER!

Please tell your Catholic friends that fact as well!

[NYer]

A pro life bump BTTT!!

I'm truly blessed to have Hillary Clinton as my senator. She'll hear from me on this issue, as will her side kick, Chuckie Schumer.

[supercat]

While I appreciate that the Republicans are using good strategy going after a type of abortion most people would say should be outlawed, I don't think this is a battle that can be effectively fought--much less won--in the legislative arena.

Any proposed legislative restriction on abortion is apt to run into trouble with Roe v. Wade and subsequent court decisions. In addition, any attempt at federal anti-abortion legislation would hit another hurdle: homicide is a state crime, rather than a federal one, and different states have different standards as to when homicide is permissible or "justifiable"; a "states'-rights" judge would probably struck down a federal "partial-birth abortion" ban no matter how strongly he personally opposed abortion.

The real thing that needs to happen is for Roe v. Wade and succeeding decisions to be turned back far enough to allow states to restrict partial-birth abortion. In theory states have that power under Roe v. Wade, but state laws to implement that have nonetheless been struck down. That--the partial reversal of Roe v. Wade--is the key thing that needs to happen before any other action on the subject can really matter.

[yendu bwam]

To wantonly murder fully grown babies is the worst crime of our time. It is barbaric and worse than the other terrible crimes of the last few centuries. If we can take the life of an innocent baby from the hands of a nurturing God, we can do any satanic thing at all.

[victim soul]

Mission accomplished. Thanks for the leads up!!