Partial-Birth Abortion

For a detailed explanation of what Partial-Birth Abortion is and the issues, current legislation, and laws surrounding it go to the National Right to Life Committee's Partial-Birth Abortion web page.

For a real understanding of what has been going on in the pro-choice, pro-life, and legislative arenas concerning partial-birth abortion, go to Real Choice's 5-part treatment of late-term abortions, Why this? Why Now?

Part 5 ends with asking these questions:

1. If a woman's life is really endangered by the pregnancy, why would any doctor reject the option of an emergency c-section, which ends the pregnancy within the hour, in favor of an extraction abortion, which takes three days?

2. If the shoulders -- which are the widest part of the baby -- are delivered already, why is it necessary to stab the baby in the head and vacuum his brain out?

3. If the baby is going to die anyway, why not approach the problem with pain management? Why stop in the middle of the delivery to stab her in the head?

4. If the baby might not die anyway, shouldn't we give him a chance? Shouldn't we see if he's really as sick as we think he is?

5. If dismemberment abortions are known to cause damage to the cervix, what does it do to a woman's cervix to forcibly dilate it enough to drag the baby out whole?

6. Why were abortionists willing to roll over and play dead through all the previous late abortion bans, but are standing their ground on this particular practice?

7. Haven't abortion proponents been telling us for a quarater of a century that Roe legalized abortion "in the first trimester?" How come all of a sudden it turns out late abortions have been going on all this time?

Read the links above to find out.
Use these questions when stating the pro-life case against partial-birth abortion!