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...Angeles Times executed the most precious of unintended ironies, labeling the decision an “unconscionable U-turn” while offering a detailed and dispassionate description of the abortifacient procedure, by which “a doctor partially extracts a fetus from the uterus into the birth canal, where he then collapses the skull by suctioning its contents...
Reasonable people who see the world as it exists—and not those whose vision is narrowed by ideological blinders—do not attempt to fit every political event into a predetermined theoretical framework. When considering issues—such as partial-birth abortion—only ideologues are content to dispense with the facts, for, as Rousseau famously summarized, they do not affect the question...
While a moral consensus against all forms of abortion has yet to emerge—or, at least, yet to marshal the same political and financial resources as the militant pro-abortion lobby—a clear majority opposes the partial-birth variety. Not ideology, but natural human sentiment, has opened the eyes of enough Americans, and enough congressional legislators and Supreme Court justices, finally to ban the procedure. The fact stands, as some pro-abortion papers even indicated: Partial-birth abortion is cruel, barbaric, and inhumane...
...many as 61 pregnant women were injected with an abortive drug after being dragged to local hospitals, according to media accounts. Human rights activists say actions allegedly carried out by family planning officials there are unlikely to be isolated. Along with forced sterilization and other coercive methods of birth control, forced abortion continues to be practiced occasionally by officials in remote parts of China despite its having been banned by the central government in Beijing...
...urban areas, the central government recently relaxed its strict laws mandating birth control in order to restrict families to one child. The government also insists that it has banned coercive birth-control practices in the countryside commonly employed by bureaucrats eager to comply with Beijing's population-control goals - and those practices have declined dramatically since the 1980s. The central government recognizes that coercive birth control is deeply unpopular and liable to cause the sort of demonstrations and other forms of protest that Beijing abhors as a threat to its authority...