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Bush Signs 'Born Alive' Act Into Law

#801225 - 08/06/02 10:54 PM (24 years, 1 month ago)

Wonderful news for life. It will once again be a crime to commit infanticide after a child has been born. Now, the next step is to get the partial birth abortion banned forever. It passed before but Clinton vetoed it and with that veto, sentenced thousands of children to death. Bush has said he will sign it when it comes to his desk.
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Bush Signs 'Born Alive' Act Into Law
Law Protecting Newborns a Positive Move, Pro-Lifers Say
By Bill Fancher, Jody Brown, and Rusty Pugh
August 6, 2002

(AgapePress) - Yesterday in Pittsburgh, President Bush signed into law the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, making it illegal to abort a child once it is outside its mother's womb. The new law affirms the right to life of newborns who manage to survive an abortion -- even if their birth was not intended or desired.

In signing the bill, Bush acknowledged that abortion is a divisive issue, but that "there is no right to destroy a child that has been born alive." The measure passed the U.S. House on a voice vote in March and by unanimous consent in the Senate on July 18. Pro-abortion groups did not oppose the bill after they were assured it would not be used to undermine Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal in the U.S.

Wendy Wright
Concerned Women for America was one of the many pro-life organizations support the passage of the bill. Spokesperson Wendy Wright, calling the act another reinforcement of the sanctity of human life, expressed thankfulness for the bill's passage -- and that Bush's signature will be the one on it "to show his support for unborn children."

In attendance at the signing was pro-life nurse and advocate Jill Stanek. Wright had high praise for the whistle-blowing nurse who first sounded the alarm regarding the practice of letting newborn babies die of neglect. She noted that Stanek was willing to testify before Congress several times about what was happening inside hospitals -- and even lost her job because she chose to come the defense of newborns.

"Only she was willing to speak out and denounce it as wrong," Wright said. "She deserves tremendous gratitude on our part for the work that she's done and blowing the whistle on what's been happening inside these hospitals, where children are [neglected and] deliberately killed on the part of the doctors and the nurses. [It is] something that numerous people have been complicit in, yet only she was willing to speak out."

Ken Connor, president of the Family Research Council, says pro-abortion forces worry that any limitations on abortion -- such as the Born Alive Infant Protection Act -- could erode abortion rights in the United States. Connor believes they are right to be worried.

In an editorial that appeared in Monday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Connor stated abortion advocates "oppose any legal recognition of the personhood of the unborn at any stage of development through viability and at the very instant of birth. With today's presidential action, that position will be much harder to defend," he said.

Connor believes the same logic that led to the passage of the Born Alive Act should now be extended to efforts to ban partial-birth abortion. As Connor puts it: "The only difference between the Born Alive Act and the effort to ban partial-birth abortion is a matter of inches."

A bill banning partial-birth abortions has already passed in the House and awaits action by the Senate.

'Father' Implies 'Mother' -- Which Implies 'Baby'
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, a judge has overturned an injunction that would have prevented a woman from aborting her baby. One pro-life advocate says the case highlights how pro-abortion forces refuse to recognize unborn children.

The original injunction came about because the father of Tanya Meyer's baby did not want her to murder the unborn child. Pro-abortion supporters claimed the father should not have a say in the matter. But Judi Brown, president of the American Life League, says this goes much deeper than simply allowing the father to be involved in the decision about a child's life.

"I think one of the things that upsets the pro-aborts so much about this is the use of the word 'father,' which suggests that the woman who wants to abort her baby is a mother -- and the word 'mother' is anathema to everybody in the pro-abortion movement," Brown says. "They don't want to even suggest to a woman that because she is carrying a child, she herself is already a mother."

Yesterday's ruling dissolving the injunction means that Tanya Meyers will be allowed to proceed with the killing of her child.

? 2002 AgapePress all rights reserved

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