Planned Parenthood is calling the Partial Birth Abortion ban the "Bush Abortion Ban." Partial birth abortion is barbaric and kills the unborn during delivery by poking a hole in the unborn's head and sucking his brains out. Leave it to Planned Parenthood to defend against that. Planned Parenthood and the abortion establishment used to say that there were hardly and abortion bans. Now they are saying that it's an abortion ban as if it would ban abortion everywhere.
What kind of interests does someone have where they would feel compelled to defend a brain suction abortion?
Any thoughts on this?
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Royale-thanks for reminding me that I have a blog:)
ReplyDeleteI did see this a couple weeks ago and thought it might blow over, but the media found it and will probably try to make it into a big deal. But I don't think most people are going to pay attention.
Is the decision a good step and is going for targeted limited goals the right path? I don't know too many people who are pro-life that think the decision should have upheld partial birth abortion. It's not a perfect decision but that would be bizarre.
I agree with Tom Minnery in the article you linked to when he says most pro-lifers "know we're not going to win a total victory all at once. We're going to win piece by piece."
I'm sure that Christian politician William Wilberforce had his detractors too, but he wasn't getting anywhere with his all or nothing proposals. His cause succeeded when he began "to cheat." So says the movie.
I guess when he got the legislature to disallow flying the British flag so that slave ships couldn't get insurance to sail their human cargo (or something like that), some probably attacked that from his side, but it had a huge impact and eventually not only the slave trade was banned, but slavery itself.
It always hurts to work toward your goals in pieces. Millions more babies are going to die before they have freedom from abortion and protection in the law. But if Wilberforce didn't act as he did when did, I suspect slavery would have continued much longer. I think the same is true of abortion. If pro-lifers didn't act when they did, we'd proably have 4 million more abortions by now and millions more in the years to come.
Pro-lifers weren't getting anywhere until partial birth abortion was made public and Nurse Brenda Pratt Shafer stepped forward to talk about what she saw. There's been about a 25 percent decrease in abortion since then and a 10 percent shift. People used to think abortion really was about blobs of tissue, products of conception, contents of the uterus and ad nauseum. Now they know much more.
So I think pursuing this path is good and if it is used to increase the budgets of these groups like National Right To Life and Focus, good. They are going to use it to lobby more, recruit and support pro-life candidates, buy ads, expand their education progams and more. It's all to the good.
Planned Parenthood, NOW, NARAL, NAF and etc don't kick each other in public. They have remarkable discipline. Pro-lifers have a lot to learn from them.
I think this blows over unless the media has an interest in it.