This is a fascinating tidbit from John Kerry's interview with Dr. Phil:
When one of his daughters asked him where babies come from, John Kerry drew her a diagram. "She got so terrified, she ran out in tears," he told Dr. Phil, in an interview that aired yesterday. Imagine if dad had drawn a diagram of partial-birth abortion, a procedure he would consistently refuse to vote to ban.
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I wonder what W would draw -- a stork?
John Kerry voted against the ban because it contains no health exception whatsoever and only a dangerously inadequate exception to save a woman’s life. The Supreme Court has long held that laws restricting abortion access must contain an exception to protect women’s health.
Actually, very few late-term abortions are performed to safeguard the mother's health. Most are strictly for convenience (at least according to the abortionists who perform them). But hey, we live in a world in which sticking forceps in the back of a delivered baby's skull and sucking it's brains is kosher. At least according to John Forbes Kerry.
Actually, The ban prohibits abortions as early as 13 weeks in pregnancy. Furthermore, the federal ban doesn't apply to late term abortions, which are not elective. Long-standing, unchallenged statutes in 40 states and the District of Columbia prohibit third-trimester abortions except when the life or health of the woman is at stake.
Not sure about your first point. It may be true if the provision outlaws D&X abortions altogether at any time during the pregnancy. This is the procedure that drugs the baby, delivers it through the birth canal (up to the shoulders), then sucks its brains out. I don't really have a problem if that's the case.
You're second point is bogus because of the health of the mother exception. The argument used to concern the life of the mother. But that argument has gone by the wayside since it was never the case with third-trimester abortions (or any abortions for that matter). The whole "the baby or the mother's life" scenario never plays out. So now the argument has shifted to the "health" of the mother. The problem with this designation is that it can include anything from post-partem depression to hypothyroidism. In other words, it's cart blanche for abortionists to drug babies, deliver them up to the shoulders, then suck their brains out.
It's a tragedy that our society tolerates such barbaric acts (and that many of our leaders condone it). But let's at least call it for what it is: infanticide. Actually, if a pro-infanticide lobby starting working the halls of Congress, I don't think anyone would even notice.
"But hey, we live in a world in which sticking forceps in the back of a delivered baby's skull and sucking it's brains is kosher. At least according to John Forbes Kerry"
Actually, the United States Constitution is the body that says it is kosher. Why do you hate America?
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