"Didn't [Barack] Obama even support partial birth abortion?"
President
Barack Obama did support partial birth abortion. President Obama attributed his
opposition to banning partial birth abortion to the lack of exception for protecting the health of the
mothers in the legislation that would have banned the partial birth abort
ion.
While President Oba
ma's desire to protect the health of the mother may appear logical and
noble on the surface, it suffers in reality from two flaws.
Firstly, part
ial bir
th abortions are particularly
gruesome procedures*
that are neither needed nor aimed at protecting the health of the mother.
Secondly, "health" is a relatively general term that includes the patient's mental
health, as well as emotional
health. There
fore, such an exception would have allowed mothers and abortionists to circumvent the law
by claiming that the mothers had even mild cases of depression.
President Obam
a is not stupid and knew perfectly well that such an exception would
have de-clawed the law and allowed part
ial bir
th abortions to continue, which is
what he wanted. After all, he is even pro-
born alive abortions and
compared
babies to sexually transmit
ted disease.
* The abortionist pulls the baby into
breach position (feet first) and sequentially pulls out the baby's legs and
arms, leaving only the head inside the mother while the rest of the
baby's body is out
side of the mother and even moving around. The abortionist then
reaches in with a pair of scissors and cuts a hole in the back of the
baby's neck, and then sticks a suction tube into the hole. When the suction machine is
turned on, the baby's brain is sucked out, crushing the skull, at which point
the now dea
d baby can be removed with ease. "Part
ial birt
h abort
ion" is a fancy
name for heinous
baby murder.
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