On the recordOctober 8, 1997
Partial-birth abortions involve killing partially delivered babies, usually from the fifth month on into the later stages of pregnancy. This gruesome procedure consists of partially delivering the live baby feet first, with only the head inside the mother's womb, and then stabbing the child at the base of the skull. Partial-birth abortions are performed mainly on healthy babies of healthy mothers. The American Medical Association says that the partial delivery of a living fetus for the purpose of killing it outside the womb is ethically offensive to most Americans and doctors. The AMA could find no identified circumstance in which the procedure was the only safe and effective abortion method. The worst tragedy of partial-birth abortions is that most are done for strictly elective reasons. We must take action to end this heinous act of killing the innocent unborn.
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