Extremism, Partial Birth Abortion and the Pro-Life Majority
It’s been a bad year for Faye Wattleton. She has her own extremism to thank for it.
by Rod D. Martin
November 12, 2003
It’s been a bad year for Faye Wattleton. And she has her own extremism to thank for it.
On November 5, President Bush signed into law what Bill Clinton had vetoed repeatedly -- a ban on partial-birth abortion. It had no trouble passing both houses of Congress, no threatened Democrat filibusters: in fact, even Clinton’s vetoes had been sustained by the barest of margins.
Why? Because the shrillness of its supporters notwithstanding, partial-birth abortion is something only the fringe of the fringe could love. In this "medical" procedure, a doctor pulls the live baby feet first out of the womb, punctures its skull with scissors, inserts a hollow tube into the wound, and then sucks out the baby's brain. Not just any baby either: a nine-month baby, a baby that feels everything the "doctor" does.
Even the pro-abortion American Medical Association has called this "barbaric". And, not surprisingly, Americans overwhelmingly oppose this detestable violation of the…
