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While Dubya signed into law the ban on “partial-birth?? abortion this week, I found myself repeating the president’s words. There is a photograph of Bush posted on the National Abortion Rights Action League website; nine other white, male colleagues circle around him like a big, happy, arch-conservative family, and Dubya’s grinning like it’s Christmas. This photograph paired with Bush’s stirring quote brings home the dreariness of our current political situation...
...fact, it was just on Oct. 2 when the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill preventing doctors from performing a procedure that pro-life advocates have named “partial-birth?? abortions. Last year, a similar bill was passed in the Senate and President George W. Bush has publicly declared he would sign it into law—marking the first time Congress will restrict abortion since Roe v. Wade...
...Supreme Court in Roe recognized a woman’s right to make her own childbearing decisions, including the right to choose abortion. However, the “partial-birth?? ban should signal to all that this hard-won constitutional right is in grave danger. In addition to a Republican-dominated Congress, the presence of an anti-choice president in the White House and the retirement of even one Supreme Court Justice could pave the way for Roe to be overturned...
...applaud your astute criticism of the so-called “partial-birth?? abortion ban recently approved by the U.S. Senate (Editorial, “Undermining Roe v. Wade,” March 31). I would like to add, however, that the real agenda underlying this maneuver is to establish a foothold for anti-abortion activists to continue to chip away at women’s rights...
...Partial-birth?? abortion, a non-medical term actually coined by abortion rights opponents, refers to an abortion procedure usually performed in the second trimester due to fetal abnormalities or medical conditions threatening the mother. The procedure accounts for fewer than 1 percent of all abortions, or approximately 2,200 abortions a year. While the actual procedure is rarely used, it is sometimes critical in saving a pregnant woman’s life...