The Partial Birth Abortion Debate
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When the debate over partial birth abortion, or D & X abortion, broke in 1995, the media had to report it. After all, it was being hotly debated in Congress where a ban on this horrific procedure was being considered. The abortion proponents knew that this procedure would repel all but the staunch ....
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.... what she witnessed. According to Shafer, the baby was alive and moving as the abortionist: "delivered the baby's body and arms--everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor suck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the ....
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