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Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Saturday, July 20, 2002
Note to the Associated Press: Congress has declared that babies born alive are babies, not fetuses.
In passing the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, the Senate made history Thursday by agreeing to protect certain aborted babies. The measure has already cleared the House and is sure to be signed into law by President Bush.
The bill draws a line in the sand on abortion by extending legal protection to children who survive the attempt to kill them in utero, according to Jill Stanek of the Illinois Union Leader.
It was Stanek who shocked a U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution by testifying that abortionists can and do deliver babies alive and leave them to die if their mother's intent is to "terminate her pregnancy."
Stanek told senators and congressmen about holding an aborted baby 45 minutes until it died in 1999.
'A Live Aborted Baby'
"I had no idea when I held a live aborted baby at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn [Ill.] that I would later sit behind a microphone and describe my grisly experiences to legislators in Washington," Stanek wrote.
It was the AP's description of aborted infants born alive as "fetuses" that led Doug Johnson, legislative director for National Right to Life, to remind an Associated Press editor Thursday night of the criticism it received when it inaccurately referred to fully born live aborted babies as "fetuses" rather than simply "babies."
Added Brad Clanton, chief counsel for House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, "If the AP, mainstream press and abortion advocates continue to use the term 'fetus' to describe fully born babies who have been marked for abortion, they will help push the abortion industry to the political fringes and further back themselves into a political corner."
Stanek described the Senate passage as the most ominous legislative moment for pro-abortionists in the 29-1/2 years that have transpired since the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision invented a legal right to abortion.
The bill's passage, she wrote, "marked the first time Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) has allowed a pro-life bill to reach the floor of the Senate since the Democrats gained control of the Senate in May 2001." The U.S. House approved the bill March 12 for the second time in two years. Incredibly, the bill passed without objections from such fanatically pro-abortion senators as Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer.
'Radicals Who Support Infanticide'
One reason for their silence: The bill, originally introduced in the House by Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., in July 2000, "proved untouchable by pro-abortionists, who feared that speaking against it would cast them as radicals who support infanticide. Yet, pro-life advocates believe this quiet bill may well serve as the pro-abortion movement's Waterloo."
Crafted by Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor of American Institutions at Amherst College, the Born Alive bill simply defines what a legal human being is.
In a July 2001 article for the National Review Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor of American Institutions at Amherst College, who crafted the bill wrote: "It was the 'most modest first step' imaginable on the issue of abortion, and yet it also had the most radical reach: It would confirm that Congress can lay hands on this subject; that Congress may legislate to establish the limits to the right to abortion, and even bar certain kinds of abortion (the so-called 'live birth abortion,' which delivers a live child, who is then left to die.)"
In the National Review article, Professor Arkes spelled out what he believes could happen as a result of the bill's enactment: "In their willingness to be clever, they [the Democrats] have backed into a bill that confirms the authority of Congress to bar some abortions."
Each state will be responsible to determine how to enforce this law, Stanek explained, and some think it could face challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court level.
Fight to End Partial-Birth Abortion Is More Difficult
In other congressional action this week, the House Judiciary Committee voted 20-8 Wednesday to ban partial-birth abortion.
"This barbaric procedure remains an untested, unproven and potentially dangerous procedure that was never embraced by the medical profession," said the measure's sponsor, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio.
AP reported, "The procedure, called dilation and extraction, involves pulling the fetus partially out of the uterus feet first. The skull is then punctured and the brain suctioned out, causing the skull to collapse and easing passage through the birth canal."
Chabot said the legislation "contains a new, more precise definition of the prohibited procedure to address" concerns of the Supreme Court, which in June 2000 struck down a Nebraska law banning partial-birth abortion.
Congress passed a ban twice, in 1996 and 1997, but Bill Clinton vetoed it each time. The House both times voted to override the veto, but the Senate failed to come up with the necessary two-thirds majority for an override.
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