Partial Birth Abortion Ban- Bogus Piece of Legislation

October 22, 2003

Operation Rescue / Operation Save America

Partial Birth Abortion Ban- Bogus Piece of Legislation

“The devil himself would have signed this bill,” said Rev. Flip Benham, National Director of Operation Save America/ Operation Rescue. “This piece of legislation will not save the life of one child for the following reasons:”

1. They will simply change the procedures. Case in point: Late term abortionist George Tiller of Wichita, Ks changed his late term procedure in 1999. He now offers “other types” of late term procedures. In 2002, 1,112 children were murdered in the state of Kansas who were 17 weeks or older and none were performed by the procedure that was banned.

2. Nobody is going to police this. The Health Department, IRS, Social services, and local police departments rarely, if ever, scrutinize the activities of the abortion industry. It will not be enforced.

3. The legislation becomes a disaster for the pro-life community. By acknowledging the cruelty of one procedure performed on older children, verses the cruelty of other procedures, performed on younger, the bill makes an unbiblical and immoral distinction and leaves the pro-life argument without Biblical foundation. The child 2 seconds old in the womb is of the same value to God and mankind, as a child 8 months in the womb. God makes no distinction, neither should we.

This bill offers the pro-life community something sweet we are expected to accept and celebrate. We are left with no choice but to be thankful to our legislators for it’s passage. But it is difficult to rejoice knowing it will not save the life of any child, and it forces us to distinguish between the value of human life. Therefore our position remains: we are not beholding to the Republican or Democratic parties, but solely to God and His Word.