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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt <[email protected]>
Subject:   NARAL Flip Flops on Born Alive Infants Protection Act
Source:   National Review, Pro-Life Infonet; June 24, 2001

NARAL Flip Flops on Born Alive Infants Protection Act

Washington, DC -- In a surprising move, the pro-abortion National Abortion
and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) has changed its position and
said it "does not oppose" passage of the pro-life Born-Alive Infants
Protection Act, according to a press release last week.

Last year, the pro-abortion group attacked the pro-life bill, which protects
the lives of children born during botched abortions, and claimed it to be an
attack on Roe v. Wade. Now it simply says the law isn't necessary, because it
is legally redundant.

That's just not true, as Ken Connor of the Family Research Council notes:  "I
was personally involved in a malpractice case where an abortionist who
attended the birth of a low-weight baby in a hospital directed the hospital
staff not to suction the baby or do anything for her until she died. Hours
later, when the hospital shift changed, another staff, mortified at the
abandonment, summoned a physician who administered CPR and saved the life of
the child. The child suffered cerebral palsy because of oxygen deprivation
resulting from the failure of the first doctor to suction the child, but
lives a meaningful and productive life."

Furthermore, nurse Jill Stanek, in what has become the most famous cases of
unborn children lieft to die after their birth, saw several cases at Christ
hospital in Chicago that helped prompt the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

Although NARAL also took no position on the pro-life bill last year, NARAL
continues to criticize pro-life lawmakers for proposing the legtislation.

A 2000 legislative wrap-up by the pro-abortion group says "lawmakers launched
a new attack through the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act."  NARAL claims
pro-life lawmakers seek "to further mischaracterize Roe v. Wade to the
American public as a decision that has recently been 'expanded' to the point
that newborn infants are now at risk."

Additionally, NARAL claims the Born Alive Infants Protection Act "was openly
used by its anti-choice sponsors to lure pro-choice lawmakers and advocates
into the trap of defending against their preposterous mischaracterizations of
the current state of abortion-rights law."

Currently, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision allows for unlimited
abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy, including
partial-birth abortions.

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