House Prepares To Consider Partial-Birth Abortion Ban

EWTN ^ | 2/14/03

[marshmallow]

(CWNews.com) - House Republicans on Thursday re-introduced a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. A similar was passed by the House last year, but the Democrat-controlled Senate never voted on it. It was also passed by the full Congress in 1996 and 1997, but President Clinton vetoed it both times.

"It's time for Congress to act and place this bill in front of the president so that we can finally end this national tragedy," said Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, the measure's sponsor. President Bush has said he would sign the bill if it reached his desk, and now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, GOP leaders expect to be able to pass the bill for his signature. "While I expect that some of the Senate's most zealous pro-abortion advocates will again attempt to block this legislation, I am confident that we will finally be able to pass this ban into law," Chabot said.

House Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, said Republican leaders hope to get the measure passed by Easter.

Pro-abortion congressmen hope to counter the proposed ban with another measure that would ban the procedure except when they are performed to protect the mother's life. Pro-life advocates counter that the procedure is not used to protect the mother's life--since the baby is almost fully delivered before he is killed--but that such an exemption would be expanded to include almost any reason.

[marshmallow]

Whenever I hear of this coming up again, I always remember the infamous exchange between Senator Rick Santorum and Senator Barbara Boxer on the subject of Partial-Birth Abortion.

For those who have never read a transcript of this exchange, read it HERE

It shows the depths of denial and deception in which the abortionists are plunged.

[PhiKapMom]

Another filibuster in the making? Seems plausible since they know this President will sign it!

[Faith]

Pro-abortion congressmen hope to counter the proposed ban with another measure that would ban the procedure except when they are performed to protect the mother's life.

Here we go again with the same old, tired arguments. How many doctors have already testified before the Senate that PBA is NEVER appropriate for use in protecting the mother's life? The Senate has heard this over and over again. If the majority of people in this nation actually saw the graphic illustration of what occurs in PBA, they would be absolutely astounded that any elected official could defend it.

That said, I am grateful for the opportunity that the Republicans have to stand in defense of these poor babies, brutally murdered in this fashion. May God bless Steve Chabot and all who will stand with him.

[MHGinTN]

Senator Boxer and her ilk do not consider the unborn to be 'fully human', thus their purposeful disenfranchisement of the unborn unto selective death is easy for them. The truth they do notaccept and do not want the American people to perceive is 'the earliest embryonic individual human life is exactly suited to the environment in which it exists and is therefore fully an individual human being, expressing ITS life and doing exactly what is normal for an individual human being at that age.' The champions of abortion killing will appeal that an embryo isn't the same as a fetus, isn't the same as a neonate, isn't the same as a toddler, etc, thus appealing to the continuum of individual human life. But their argument is paradoxical for they appeal to the continuum as a means to deny a portion of the continuum begun at conception!

[newgeezer]

Legally, a PBA ban will be a great first step but, I don't expect it will save any babies. They'll just get aborted the old-fashioned way, instead. PBA is preferred in order to control the mess, and preserve some parts.

It's quite a world we've made for ourselves.

[MadMoo]

Stop PBA and make both the participants of the conception (boy/girl) be responsible for their creation and further: both parents must participate equally for the joint participation in their 'fun-act' for ALL financial responsibility for their actions for the next 18-years after their child's birth. The mothers' health issue is moot. Any legally qualified MD would have detected a defect of the fetus 99.999% of all cases.

Abortion is a multi-billion dollar industry and the attorneys know it. They are in it up to their elbow and bank account. It is a very sick, sick issue. Where has the parenting gone wrong. GOD help us all...

Imagine after Hillary's brother (the fatter, more ugly, new rich ($32 mil for his 2-hrs work on the Tobacco case), Boxer found the perfect match for her daughter. Bab's child got knocked up and 1-yr later got a divorce. Bet Bab's daughter got THE divorce settlement of the year. Luv to know what the $-settlement was... I guess no one cares anymore about one's gene-pool except the courts and conservatives.