Life, death and the U.S. Senate

Human Life Review | October 1, 1999| | Copyright

Once again, a majority of the U.S. Senate has voted to ban partial-birth abortion, which its defenders prefer to call "intact dilation and extraction." Multisyllabic, latinate words are always preferable when a speaker doesn't want to be too specific about what he's advocating.

Whatever the procedure is called, it involves partially delivering the baby, feetfirst, keeping its head in the birth canal, and suctioning out its brains before the entire, now dead baby-excuse me, fetus-is removed. Is this still abortion, or is it infanticide? It's about half one, half the other-or maybe ...

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