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Congressmen React to Horror of Live-Birth Abortions
Agape
Press Christian News Service
March 29, 2001
By Bill Fancher
WASHINGTON, DC (AgapePress) - Revelations about "live-birth abortions"
in
many hospitals across the nation is an outrage, according to Pennsylvania
Republican Joe Pitts.
The procedure Pitts finds so offensive involves inducing labor and delivering
the child several months in advance of anticipated birth. Most of the babies
die in the delivery process, but between 25% and 50% are born alive. At that
point, hospital staffers simply place the babies aside until they die --
usually within an hour.
Congressman Pitts says this horror prompts a question: "Is abortion in our
land the right to a dead baby if it is not killed in the process?"
Pitts laments the fact that this procedure has been ruled legal in Illinois
and other states.
"In the past, infants were always considered born-alive human beings,
protected under the law," he says, "but this principle is not
completely
accepted in today's culture."
Pro-abortion groups are now trying to redefine the term "viability" to
mean
more than being able to breathe apart from the mother after birth. Some are
even advocating that parents be granted the right to "abort" their
child even
after birth, if they desire to do so.
Legislation to be Re-introduced
A bill that grants human rights to any baby surviving an abortion died in the
Senate last year. But Arkansas Republican and pro-life advocate Congressman
Asa Hutchinson says Congress will take action to promote that same
legislation -- the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
"Those infants [who] for whatever reason survive an attempted abortion ...
under a just law of our land and a Constitution ... are entitled to
constitutional protection as any living human being [would be]," Hutchinson
says.
Hutchinson maintains God's justice demands such a bill be passed and signed
into law.
He also feels this will be a very good year for the pro-life cause, and says
its advocates can expect lots of action in Congress over the next few months.
He expects the Judiciary Committee to move this year on the partial-birth
abortion ban, which he says "has really changed the abortion debate in
America [and] moved public opinion more toward the pro-life side." He also
expects action on legislation for parental rights, as well.
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