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One Reporter's Opinion — The Right to Be Born George Putnam It is this reporter's opinion that the most contentious domestic issue of our day is abortion.
Roe v. Wade did not provide the final word on abortion; it served as the starting point for years of legal debate.
Roe v. Wade represents a legitimate restriction on the qualified right to abortion taking into consideration the interests in both the woman and the partially born baby. While there is no determinative moment of viability to the fetus, it is understood to exist by 24 weeks of gestation. Logically, this means that many, if not most, partial birth abortions are performed on viable fetuses.
Despite efforts by abortionists to obfuscate the truth about the "procedure," using such terms as "evacuation abortion," we know the truth. Partial birth abortion is the brutal killing of a child in the process of being born.
The child is pulled partially from the mother and while in the birth canal, its head is punctured, its brain sucked out, and its skull collapsed. That allows the doctor to completely withdraw the dead body from the mother.
Congress was right to put an end to this barbaric practice and conservatives trust the court will uphold this ban.
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Those who have reviewed the transcripts of the court's recent oral arguments are deeply troubled. The justices and the lawyers blithely and repeatedly speak of "dismemberment" of an unborn child's head, tearing a limb off an unborn child, and "fetal demise" (death).
How could anyone (let alone a Supreme Court Justice) think that tearing limbs from an unborn baby or sucking the brains out of a partially born baby is the exercise of a right protected by the Constitution? It is this reporter's opinion that a Supreme Court that embraces such a radical anti-life attitude is a Supreme Court that gives up its moral authority.
The Court and you and I have the responsibility to acknowledge the rights of human beings in the early stages of life by upholding the ban. Let us all pray that it does.
To do otherwise is to label the procedure "murder."
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