Legalized Murder

Fox News recently published a story. Here is just a little of the outraging news contained within it:

"SAN FRANCISCO -- Two federal appeals courts on opposite sides of the country declared the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Tuesday, saying the measure is vague and lacks an exception for cases in which a woman's health is at stake.

The first ruling came from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Hours later, a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a similar decision, affirming a 2004 ruling by a judge who upheld the right to perform a type of late-term abortion even as he described the procedure as 'gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized.'"

This is an utterly unacceptable defeat to the prolife movement. Just in case you may have forgotten the evils of partial birth abortion, here is a direct quote from the American Life League's Rock for Life website:

"4. Dilation and Extraction (also known as D & X or Partial-Birth Abortion): Used to kill babies well into the third trimester (as late as 32 weeks old), the abortionist reaches into the mother's womb, grabs the baby's feet with a forceps and pulls the baby out of the mother, except for the head. The abortionist then jams a pair of scissors into the back of the baby's head and spreads the scissors apart to make a hole in the baby's skull. The abortionist removes the scissors and sticks a suction tube into the skull to suck the baby's brain out. The forceps are then used to crush the baby's head and the abortionist pulls the baby's body out the rest of the way."

It doesn't matter if you think life begins at conception or not (even though it indeed does, concluding from most scientific information), the fetus when aborted using D & X has a functioning brain and heart. It can feel pain, and the procedure is clearly murder. How on God's green earth can such an operation be protected by the Constitution of the United States of America? What happened to the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness gaurunteed to us in the Declaration of Independencee? Oh wait, now I remember, the courts these days do not enforce the principles our founding fathers cherished, nor do they recognize our nation's Christian heritage. Hopefully our newest addition to the supreme court (yes, Alito got confirmed today) will not twist the Constitution like many other are doing. Only time will tell.

~Tribal~