Rescuers are hopeful that the barbaric abortion ban will be upheld by new Court.
Washington, DC — The United States Supreme Court has agreed today to hear an appeal in a Nebraska case that struck down the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. The case, known as Gonzales v. Carhart, will be the first test of an abortion case under the new Supreme Court with its newest member, Justice Samuel Alito.
In 2001, the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law that banned the grisly late-term abortion procedure with a 5-4 vote. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor cast the swing vote in that case. Now, with Alito on the bench in her place, proponents of the ban are hopeful of a different outcome.
“We look forward to the hearing on this case with great anticipation and hope,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “This will be an opportunity for the court to undo a grave injustice and uphold a ban on a barbaric abortion procedure that is inflicted upon on live, viable pre-born children just weeks away from delivery.”
“This case could be a watershed decision that opens the floodgates to future decisions that will abolish abortion in our nation,” said Newman. “Let the abortionists beware! Their day of unabated child-killing is coming to an end.”
“We call on all men and women of conscience to come to Washington DC and join us at the Supreme Court to pray for justice when this case comes up for a hearing,” said Newman
I certainly hope that abortion in all of its forms is eventually banned. Having two more conservatives on the Supreme Court will work towards that end.
At four weeks the baby has a heart beat and the brain waves begin waving. Therefore the baby can feel and since everything. Abortion should be illegal because it is an act of selfishness, and inhumane. The fact that doctor can charge a woman to murder her baby or pay a doctor the murder her baby is wrong. That baby was put her on Earth for a reason and taking that away will change everything. What if that baby was meant to save the world or invent something great? We will never find out because the women’s selfishness, and the doctor’s greediness for money. If schools had to teach about abortion like they have to have sex Ed people would find out about all the inhumane procedures and the violence that goes along with the abortion. As well as the suffering of infant, the fact that they are most likely to become depressed or suicidal due to the guilt from the abortion.
Oh my gosh! I never ever had a solid stand on abortion. I consider myself open-minded and a go with the times sort of gal. But after seeing the pictures on this website and reading I am CONVINCED that abortion is murder. I was kind of against it before but like I said didn’t have a solid stand.
Now I am ABSOLUTELY AGAINST this horrible thing. Thank you to Operation Rescue for opening up my eyes.
Well, what I think is if Planned Parenthood is sending out so many lies and is so full of deception it seems that the cure to the disease is TRUTH….We need to do everything as prolifers to get the truth out about abortion and especially Planned Parenthood whom everyone thinks is such a wonderful organization…if they only knew.
Angie, and all others upset by the photos
Indeed, the photos are disturbing, and a partial-birth abortion is sick and wrong I believe. However, 99% of abortions are performed at or before 12 weeks of development. At this stage, the fetus feels no pain. The cheif reasons that women obtain abortions are rape, incest, extremely severe medical problems the developed child would have, and endangerment of a mother’s life, should she carry the pregnancy.
There is no doubt that I am against partial birth abortion, which is proceedure illustrated, performed on a near-term developed baby. Legislation banning this practice I definitely support. I believe most other pro-choice people would as well. Mind you, the federal “”"”Partial Birth Abortion Ban”"”" contained many compontents other than banning partial-birth; including tight restrictions on early-term abortions, and even issues of women’s rights to seek reproductive health care.
While it’s only right to protect developed babies from partial-birth abortion….is it right to forbid a 13-year old who was raped by her step-father to terminate her life-shattering pregnancy at 8 weeks of development?
We must consider the extremities included in a whollistic ban.
I would simply like to point out, that the 13 year old who was raped by her step-father has already experienced her “life-shattering” experience, probably more often than once. To add the knowledge, for the rest of her life, that she chose to cause the shredding of a tiny child into bits by surgical instruments will not put her life back together. Two wrongs never make a right… but especially two attrocities.
A pregnant teen who was raped by a family member has only begun to know the horrors of the situation. Think of the dynamics within her household, her relationships with peers at school, in school activities, in her extended family, community, if the rape is brought to trial, her experience of the court proceedings….This is not to mention the unwanted physical and emotional changes she’ll go through in pregnancy and the dramatic changes and lost opportunites to experience her teen years as she should be able, and to further her education as a teen mother, should she keep a baby. Her rape is merely the beginning.
Another thing, if god “knows ye before you were in the womb”, and every pregnancy is god’s intention, what is the intention of spontanious abortion, or “miscarriage” that occurs so frequently…often when before a woman is even aware that she is pregnant?
Kimberly
You’ve seen the pictures of what partial-birth abortion does to a living child, but have you seen the pictures to what a first trimester does to a living child at 7 weeks?
If you haven’t, I suggest you go to abortionno.org or abort73.com. After you have seen those pictures, please answer this question: What’s the difference?
What’s the difference between partial-birth and first trimester abortions? It is clearly a living human being at 7 weeks. You can see the individual fingers and toes, the mouth, nose, eyes – practically everything. How does anyone else’s rights justify hacking a living human child to pieces?
Kimberly,
Am I reading your post correctly? Are you saying that the horrors are (1) going through the trial, (2) pregnancy, and (3) raising the baby?
Does this mean we should [1] help her kill the child, [2] not prosecute the pedophile father, and [3] aid in the cover up so she can pretend her life is good.
This only works until he rapes her again. Sometimes the necessary good thing to do can be difficult.
Coming forward as a victim of rape is hard. Even more so when it is incest. Going through a trial to prevent the pedophile rapist from having access to other children is excruciating.
Giving birth to a little baby is difficult, and can be painful without an epidural. But abortion can be painful, and even sometimes fatal, oh and sorry no epidural.
Making the decision to give your baby up for adoption is a tough one. You will wonder “what if?” for the rest of your life. You will also wonder “what if?” if you keep your child.
There are no easy answers, but I would not want to live in a world where people felt reporting the rape, and prosecuting the criminal were not worth the horrors of enduring the system.
I know what I am talking about having had both my daughters come to me after G-Pa raped them. (This at 8 & 10). It has been horrible, but in talking to them they are both glad we chose to go to the police. Something about enduring a horrible experience becomes better when you reach the end, and find you stood for something good.
There is no good in a unplanned dead child, but being a unplanned child myself I personally find life, though difficult, a good choice.
Grace and Peace to you Kimberly.
Matthew
I can understand how a woman could have a first-trimester abortion and really think she is only killing a blob of tissue. She might not know any better. But I am now 32 weeks pregnant with my precious son, and I cannot fathom how any woman can feel her child moving and growing within her in the second and third trimesters and be COLD-HEARTED enough to deliver her flesh and blood to the abortionist/executioner! May God have mercy on the souls of women cruel enough to sacrifice their little ones on the altar of self-worship. Has modern femenism really reduced women to such selfish, pathetic wimps?
We should be ashamed as human beings that PBA is being practiced! I’ve got different feelings for the first trimester, but thes ePBA’s are absolutely inhumane….a sad reality of our dark nature. I read a great article here about PBA….great insight: http://constitutionalmatters.com/thevoice/oped/pba
That picture of that once perfectly molded little human being with his or her brains hanging out was just beyond any words. How could any mother do it? It has got to STOP! I mean what will it take? More prayer? More education? More adoption agencies?-OR is it out of our reach to repair this?This is an abomination. What on earth could make someone that is feeling fetal movement allow a cruel murderer to take that baby from her womb? Jesus himself must be weeping.
One situation changes it all. A friend of mine carried a dead baby for 5 months because she was past the legal time to terminate her pregnancy. The baby had a very rare form of dwarfism that prevented the lung cage from growing and expanding. Therefore, the unborn fetus would be still-born or live for a maximum of 10 days. She was given the option of terminating her pregnancy but once she had made the decision to terminate it was past the legal deadline in Missouri and it was then considered partial birth abortion. I am with you on the terms of partial birth and so was she. She carried the lifeless fetus until she was full-term and gave birth to a still-born. Do you think it would have been wrong of her to terminate the pregnancy before the partial birth limit? Or do you think it’s alright for her to suffer through endless questions of “When are you due?” and “Is it a boy or girl?” when she knows she will never know the joy of having a baby because it is already dead inside of her. Abortion will never be illegal because of situations like that. I do not believe that abortion should be a form of birth control but I do believe that there are extreme situations in which it cannot be frowned upon. And unfortunately, if it is an option for one person they have to make it an option for all persons.
I was violently raped when I was 17 and gave birth to a beautful 10lb baby boy just before I turned 18.
I never considered causing pain to another human to be a solution and saw him as my silver lining. I now have a 16 yr old, 6′4 son who has been an absolute delight to have in my life and others’.
Obviously this isn’t the only reason people have terminations and I am no way an expert on everyone’s situations. But I would hope people would give a thought for life.
What never makes sense in my head is – what kind of person applies for the job of pulling a baby from it’s mother’s womb, ramming scissors onto the back of its tiny head (sometimes decapitating it) and proceeding to suck it’s brains out?
I think if you were to find out your cat or dog had the same treatment in a veterinary surgery – there would be uproar!
I personally find it digusting that the world is ready for these images. The human race is often spoilt and selfish. Not always, but often.