The decade-long debate that led to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 tested the moral and political convictions of U.S. legislators in Washington, of U.S. Presidents (in both political parties), and of the public at large. Opinion polls repeatedly showed that over two-thirds (68% to 70%) of American adults were appalled by partial… [Read more…]
September 14, 2011
The WALL STREET JOURNAL carried an op-ed on September 14, 2011 by Dan Senor entitled “Why Obama Is Losing the Jewish Vote”. It is all about Obama’s disastrous relationship with, and attitude toward, Israel over the current presidential term. He concludes: ”(Mr. Obama) has built the most consistently one-sided diplomatic record against Israel of any… [Read more…]
August 24, 2011
Professor Kaczor of Loyola Marymount College sets out (in the August issue of First Things ”Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs”) six or more irrefutable reasons why the arguments of ‘gradualists’ vis-a-vis abortion do not stand up to intellectual or moral analysis. ‘Gradualists’ are those who may be seen to occupy a middle ground, by (possibly) accepting certain… [Read more…]
June 27, 2011
Those in denial about late-term, second-trimester elective abortions of viable or potentially-viable infants (21/22 through 27/28 weeks’ gestation lmp) say that “the numbers are not real”. That “the problem doesn’t exist”. Or “even if there are some late-term abortions, they are very rare and only occur in the third trimester”. And “anyway, those ‘fetuses’ are… [Read more…]
April 26, 2011
SAVING VIABLE INFANTS BILL PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 2003 REVISED, TO INCLUDE LATE-TERM D&E DISMEMBERMENT ABORTION OF POTENTIALLY VIABLE INFANTS AT 21 WEEKS GESTATION AND LATER BAN ACT OF 2011 One Hundred Twelfth Congress of the United States of America: On this date……., 2011 An Act: To Prohibit the practice commonly known as… [Read more…]
April 9, 2011
This presentation is a repeat of an earlier Power Point document, recently updated. D&E Dismemberment Abortion during the 22nd through 27th week gestation age (when infants in the womb are viable) number in excess of 20,000 children a year. The late-term D&E Dismemberment procedure is just as painful to the child, and quite as… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Fred Barnes (Weekly Standard executive editor) writes in a lead Opinion article in the Wall Street Journal (March 28) that if Republicans insist on barring funding for Planned Parenthood as an attachment to a federal government spending measure, Democratic Party opposition is certain and “we’ll get a government shutdown”. He’s probably right. A Democratic Party… [Read more…]
March 23, 2011
Late-term abortion is not primarily third trimester abortion. Third trimester abortions, from 28 weeks’ gestation to full term, number about 600 a year and are performed for medical emergency reasons. ”Late-term abortions” are primarily SECOND-trimester abortions that take place in the 21st through 27th week gestation lmp of pregnancy, when – on an average basis… [Read more…]
March 18, 2011
Guttmacher’s research paper “Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions” (2005 – Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 37(3):110-118) does not address Late-Term Abortion specifically, although certain conclusions are drawn applicable to post-13-weeks’ gestation lmp abortions – second trimester abortions – some of which would be late-term abortions of viable infants, i.e. from 22 through 27 weeks’… [Read more…]
March 12, 2011
Lest we forget, an average of 3,560 abortions take place every day of the year in America. The approximately 1.3 million total abortions a year (the real number is higher than the Guttmacher’s published estimate) is made up of first trimester abortions at around 1,150,000 a year, by far the vast majority of abortions. Then… [Read more…]
September 29, 2011
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