Educating Others

The need to talk about partial-birth abortions

Since the public found out about the partial-birth abortion procedure, numerous polls have shown just how much Americans detest the killing of a partially-born child. The most recent poll, a Gallup poll in January of 2003 found that 70 percent of Americans favored a law to ban partial-birth abortion.

Even with all the publicity and attention that the ban on partial-birth abortion has received, there are many among us who think that this procedure doesn’t really exist. If this procedure didn’t exist, then why would abortion advocates be working so hard to keep it legal? Others, including many in the media, think that this procedure is extremely rare and not of national concern. In 1997, Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, admitted that there were approximately 3,000 to 5,000 partial-birth abortions performed each year. The Alan Guttmacher Institute estimates that the number of partial-birth abortions has tripled since 1996. If 5,000 American infants a year (that’s more than 13 a day) were dying from a new disease, we wouldn’t consider it rare or inconsequential; it would be considered an epidemic that would receive national headlines for months.

Please contact your representative in the U.S. House and tell them to vote for the ban on partial-birth abortions. They need to know that Americans won’t allow this horrible procedure to continue.

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