Abortion advocates say that partial birth abortion does not exist and it does not kill unborn children during delivery. Sometimes they will say that the unborn is dead prior to the delivery. They say these things to discredit the ban. You know you are desperate when you have to resort to that kind of argument.
First, is there such thing as a partial birth abortion? Or should we say, does the term partial birth abortion describe a particular abortion procedure? (View diagrams with step by step explanations.) Well, partial birth abortion is now described by law. The Congress described it this way. Partial birth abortion occurs when an abortionist “delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus.”
Eyewitness Nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer went out to work at partial birth abortion inventor Martin Haskill’s clinic. She testified to Congress, as she has twice on Voice for Life, how partial birth abortions are done:
The doctor delivered the baby’s body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby’s body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby’s head, and the baby’s arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby was completely limp.”
Other PBA witnesses say the same. In the trial before U.S. District Judge Richard Casey in New York, Dr. Carolyn Westoff testified that there is “usually a heartbeat” when she begins delivery in a partial-birth abortion, and that the fetus is living until she collapses the skull. Leroy Carhart, the plaintiff in Stenberg v. Carhart said that the heartbeat would continue for a short time after the brains were sucked out. Abortionist Timothy Johnson, told the judge that when the “fetus” has been extracted, “Feet could be moving, yes.”
How do you argue with that description that partial birth abortion kills a child during delivery and that it accurately describes what happens during a certain abortion procedure? Several years ago I had septo rhino plasti, or something like that. You know it by “nose job” or a fixed “deviated septum.” Is there such thing as a nose job? Maybe not in the books, but we all know what it means. The same would be true with partial birth abortion even if it didn’t have a legal term to back it up.
Finally, the image of a helpless baby dangling outside the womb before being stabbed by scissors and having his or her brains sucked out, is revolting and should move the court to ban this procedure and look up those who perform it.
See Nevada LIFE’s Partial Birth Abortion Myths and Partial Birth Abortion Page.
View Illustrated Images On Partial Birth Abortion.
View diagrams with step by step explanations.
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