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QUOTING:

There are variations in D&E operative strategy; compare ibid. with W. Hern, Abortion Practice 146—156 (1984), and Medical and Surgical Abortion 133—135. However, the common points are that D&E involves (1) dilation of the cervix; (2) removal of at least some fetal tissue using nonvacuum instruments; and (3) (after the 15th week) the potential need for instrumental disarticulation or dismemberment of the fetus or the collapse of fetal parts to facilitate evacuation from the uterus.

In his dissent, Justice Thomas said
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Although the description of this procedure set forth above should be sufficient to demonstrate the resemblance between the partial birth abortion procedure and infanticide, the testimony of one nurse who observed a
partial birth abortion procedure makes the point even more vividly:

“The baby’s little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his little feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors in the back of his head, and the baby’s arms jerked out, like a startle reaction, like a flinch, like a baby does when he thinks he is going to fall.

“The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby’s brains out. Now the baby went completely limp.” H. R. 1833 Hearing 18 (statement of Brenda Pratt Shafer).

Justice Scalia in his dissent:
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I am optimistic enough to believe that, one day, Stenberg v. Carhart will be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court’s jurisprudence beside Korematsu and Dred Scott. The method of killing a human child–one cannot even accurately say an entirely unborn human child–proscribed by this statute is so horrible that the most clinical description of it evokes a shudder of revulsion. And the Court must know (as most state legislatures banning this procedure have concluded) that demanding a “health exception”–which requires the abortionist to assure himself that, in his expert medical judgment, this method is, in the case at hand, marginally safer than others (how can one prove the contrary beyond a reasonable doubt?)–is to give live-birth abortion free rein. The notion that the Constitution of the United States, designed, among other things, “to establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, . . . and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” prohibits the States from simply banning this visibly brutal means of eliminating our half-born posterity is quite simply absurd.

Indeed. Tiller the Killer is dead, and Satan took his place.

Full sympathy for the family of Tiller, who somehow found a way to love this murderous rogue.

But not a word about the enablers of this murderous rogue. Look to the source, people, all 546 of them!

In commenting on the murder of Dr. Tiller yesterday the indefatigably conservative Michelle Malkin bitterly complained: Those who have jumped to score political points before Tiller is even buried are no better than the Phelps family thugs of the “We…

A mother and father were faced with a dilemma. They were told by their doctor that their unborn baby would be born with horrible physical defects, mentally handicapped, and terribly deformed. This doctor gave these parents a worst-case scenario, and encouraged the mother to have an abortion. This couple went ot a second doctor and got the same news: baby would be deformed, terribly brain-damaged, and would likely be totally dependant on Mom and Dad for the rest of its life. This doctor also recommended an abortion. The parents decided to stick it out, have the baby, and let God be and remain in control. Their family doctor, who’d given the first diagnosis, said that they were foolish to have the baby, and again, encouraged the mother to have an abortion. The doctor said the same thing time and time and time again when the expectant mother continued to see him in her prenatal check-ups. finally, the due date arrived, and the baby was born…..a beautiful, perfect, and 100% healthy baby girl. Had they gne with these two doctors’ recommendations, tettes, they’d have killed a perfectly healthy baby for no other reason than convenience (read: selfishness). So to counter your story, tettes, remember that doctors can misdiagnose. Doctors aren’t 100% perfect, especially whern it comesd to the unborn.

The problem is that no DA charged him with murder as one did with Kivorkian?

–ChiefRZ

I don7t know if the charges were for murder, but Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline — before he was unwisely voted out of office by a majority of dunderhead Kansans — brought criminal charges on several occasions against Mr. Tiller, even right up to his final day in office. None of the charges stuck, and he was released. I don’t know if the charges were for murder, but I believe some of them were for criminal negligence, negligent manslaughter, and/or criminal activities thanks to a couple of womens’ families requesting charges be broguht for their female relatives who died….

And I wholeheartedly believe the rise in homicides, child abuse, and a general disregard for fellow man in today’s world has a direct link to abortion. If we’re going to say it’s okay for us to define a human being based on our own individual beliefs and feelings, then expect people to act accordingly and not confine a disregard for life to the unborn.

–englishqueeno1

EnglishQueen01, I agree 100%. In fact, the root problem of abortion is selfishness. Whether ocerced into it, or doing it freely, abortion is nothing more than sdelfishness. The left can cry “Rape and Incest warrant abortion”, but when less than 1% of all performed abortions have been for rape, incest, and the mother’s life being endangered, there can be only one other reason for abortion: SELFISHNESS….