False democracy- Partial Birth Abortion

[thaiboxerken]

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/62003b.asp

This is your typical, ignoranced based attack on abortion and partial-birth abortion. I'd like to pick out one thing that is said in the article:

"The head of the Family Research Council (FRC) has declared that U.S. senators and members of the House who recently voted in support of partial-birth abortion are "morally unfit for public service."

A bill banning the gruesome procedure has now passed both the House and Senate, and is awaiting the president's signature. But FRC president Ken Connor believes the 33 senators and 139 House members who voted against the ban should still be held accountable."


WTF is this?! I mean, if we punish people for not voting correctly, is it really a vote?

[Cain]

The Washington Post had a good article the other day on the propaganda of so-called "partial birth" abortions.

The anti-choice people are crazy. It's almost funny how many of them actually believe the Republicans will allow abortion to become completely outlawed.

[thaiboxerken]

Hmm.. but the scary thing is, they might be right.

PBA's are done for medical reasons, but for some reason, the legislators have decided that they are more experts on health than doctors are. This is just another step towards theocracy, they've decided that "god" told them PBA's are a sin.

[Mercutio]

If I heard right on NPR, the legislation included a "congressional finding" that PBA is never medically necessary. (I suppose doctors just do it, the very few times it is done, for kicks) They did this in order to avoid the language of exceptions "when the procedure is medically necessary to save the life of the mother." It simply, by congressional definition, is never medically necessary.

On the other hand, this may give an out to a physician. If the doc feels that it is, in fact, medically necessary, then it cannot, by definition, be a partial birth abortion. (and yes, I know that is not the medical term for the procedure anyway)