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San Fransisco judge overturns the banning of partial birth abortions. Isn't it lovely?
Published on June 1, 2004 By voodoostation In Health & Medicine
Judge Phyllis Hamilton declared the ban on partial birth abortions unconstitutional today, according the Associated Press. Now, I'm not against abortion, but this type is particularly troublesome. If you have to wait until the third trimester before deciding to abort, then it seems to me to be like taking off your parachute pack as the chute deploys. I don't know how you define a baby, but if you've ever seen footage and photographs of these "medical procedures", there may be a striking resemblance to a child in them. A partial birth abortion, for those of you who don't already know, is a way to kill the baby legally. They pull the baby out through the birth canal so there is only a little left in the mother. They then take a syringe, a turkey baster, a vacuum cleaner, whatever's handy and suck out the baby's brain. They also cut off the legs and the arms, each with at least 5 fingers and toes on them. This occurs at a time in development of the fetus that it can live outside the womb, either assisted or not, which may incur the use of modern medicine to save them. There is at this moment more rage against killing dogs and cats in kennels than killing babies. What gives? Have we really gone off the deep end as a civilization? Wait, never mind, Sarah answered that in my last article. You'll decry the humiliation of Abu Grhaib, but won't touch this with a 29 and a half foot pole. You liberals and "free thinkers" out there need to get off the pot, it gives you man boobs, and learn respect. For life if anything. This "simple medical procedure" is abortion only because part of the baby is still in the birth canal, no other reason. If 99% of that possible little rugrat is out of the mother, why can't they take the rest out? Why? If it took a woman 8 and a half months to decide she wanted an abortion, that woman has bigger problems upstairs than killing a baby can take care of. For those of you who lean a little more to the left than I do, I would like some intelligent answers to this if you can come up with them, please. This, partial birth abortion, is murder, no way around it. The sickest thing of all, I think, is none of you who would have this done would be able to kill a deer or a rabbit or a cute little sheep. So why the double standard?
Comments
on Jun 02, 2004
I will never ever understand partial birth abortion.  I just can't fathom it.  I have seen no documentation of medical need for such a thing.  I just can't even think about it without feeling ill.
on Jun 03, 2004
Total agreement Jill.

Who could ever condone such a thing - there can not be a viable arguement for that - any doctor will tell you prolife/choice that a foetus is "viable" at 28weeks (which is another arguement entirely)

anything after that is murder.

I felt physically ill reading that - if they could get the baby into the mothers birth canal she's obviously in labour so one more push and she could give the baby up for adoption - at 8months its got a great chance of life....

i feel sick
on Jun 03, 2004

I am pro-choice (not personally, but for the rest of the world), but I don't lump partial birth murder in with "abortion".  Abortion through the first trimester is one thing, but hell, my daughter was born at 8 months and 1 week (she may have even been more premature than that) and besides being on oxygen for the first day, she was fine and healthy.

Just don't know how people can live with themselves after doing that- or how the doctors who perform it can live with themselves, either.

on Jun 03, 2004
After reading the comments posted by already established intelligent women, I am enthused and rather disappointed. Enthused because I counted on their replies and hedged my bets that way and disappointed by the lack of response from the foot soldiers of this cause, the worker bees , the zombies in this battle of choice. After nearly dying of an aneurism after reading how right winged this site is, and knowing otherwise, I expected better results. I should have chosen a shorter pole for people to use. My mistake.