Abortion has ever so quietly stuck its head into the American culture over the last twenty years. Upsetting many Americans in 1973 was the verdict of Roe Versus Wade. This was the decision that the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Because of that ruling abortion has now evolved to the point at which it is. In the dawn of a new millennium abortion is not just a broad topic, but has been narrowed down to different procedures and methods to perform. As controversial as abortion is as a whole, one certain procedure brings upon the most controversy, partial birth abortions. Why partial birth abortions are wrong, and the power that government now has to stop it.

Partial birth abortions are different from regular abortions where partial birth abortions are done much later in the pregnancy. They are normally done around the fifth to sixth month of pregnancy, but can be performed much later. By the fifth month the baby is around twelve inches long, already hiccupping and the baby's organs are complete. By the time the baby has been in the womb six months it starts opening its eyes and could survive at this point if born prematurely. After the sixth month the baby: starts using all five

Smolin, David. "Woe to those who call evil, good..." The Supreme Court 2000

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The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: it bleeds to death as it is torn from limb to limb...The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off...Dr. [Leroy] Carhart [the abortionist who challenged Nebraska's partial-birth abortion ban] has observed fetal heartbeat...with "extensive parts of the fetus removed, "...and testified that mere dismemberment of a limb does not always cause death because he knows of a physician who removed the arm of a fetus only to have the fetus go on to be born "as a living child with one arm." ...At the conclusion of a D&E abortion... the abortionist is left with "a tray full of piece"(qtd. in Smolin).

Janet Folger writes in Partial-Birth Abortion Too Common, Never Necessary To Protect Women, "The defenders of partial-birth abortion tried to discredit Brenda Pratt Shafer, a nurse who assisted with the procedure and told Congress what she witnessed. They said Shafer never worked for the Ohio abortionist-until she delivered the cancelled check and pay stub" (qtd. in Internet site). Why do employees of abortion agencies have to watch their back every time they walk into a building or exit a building? People who do things that are wrong are regularly the individuals who have to watch their back. When a person is speeding and knowingly speeds in their vehicle they are ever so cunningly on the look out for police officers.

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