Don’t underestimate the significance of the Supreme Court's consideration on the fate of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003.
Here’s the problem: Partial-birth abortion sounds like an abortion, but it looks like infanticide.
Consequently, if this ban is supported, then late-term abortion rights seem much less credible, because butchering a living child fully inside her mother’s womb (D & E abortion) seems just as bad as suctioning the baby’s brains when 2/3s outside her mother’s body (D & X, or partial-birth abortion).
However, if the ban is struck down, then outright infanticide becomes much more credible. Since the baby is just one contraction away from full birth, why not give one last push, completely deliver the child, then take her life? Call it a “post-natal abortion”—arguably the safest procedure yet.
Ideas have consequences.
Greg Koukl - Stand to Reason
