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Mark Caserta: Obama won't stop cruel live birth abortions

August 30, 2008 @ 12:00 AM

Some issues must transcend political affiliation and infanticide has to become one of them.

In 2000, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) was first introduced into Congress. The bill guarantees that any baby born alive, regardless of stage of development, or attempted abortion, is afforded full legal rights under federal law as a citizen of the United States.

Why would we need such a law, and who could possibly not support it? The answer may or may not surprise you.

What was legislated in Roe v. Wade as a right to abort unborn children ultimately was extended by the courts into allowing the violent destruction of partially born children just inches from birth. Just as a reminder to you liberals who calmly stand by and allow this barbaric procedure called "partial birth abortion," this type of abortion is performed on the infant just before the head emerges during the birthing process as the doctor pierces the rear of the skull and sucks out the brains of the kicking child just before the head emerges. The kicking ends, and the tiny limbs fall limp.

A perfect example of liberal poison spreading.

Could it possibly get worse?

The BAIPA was legislated because of a procedure called "live birth abortion."

In this procedure, doctors do not attempt to kill the baby in the uterus, nor do they terminate its little life before the head emerges. The goal is to cause premature labor by inserting medication into the mother's birth canal, irritating the cervix, causing it to open prematurely and allowing the mother to give birth to the ailing child. At that point, the baby is set aside until it dies of medical complications arising from a premature delivery. It isn't uncommon for the live aborted baby to linger for an hour or two, or even longer.

Jill Stanek, a registered nurse in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital, in Oak Lawn, Ill., was fired because of her fight to stop live birth abortions in her workplace. In her testimony before Congress, Jill revisited the evening a Down's syndrome baby was aborted:

"I cradled and rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was between 21 and 22 weeks old, weighed about one-half pound and was about 10 inches long. After he was pronounced dead, we folded his little arms across his chest, wrapped him in a tiny shroud, and carried him to the hospital morgue where all of our dead patients are taken."

Her efforts helped convince the 106th Congress to enact the BAIPA in 2002 after a "neutrality clause" was added that stated the bill expressed no judgment about the legal status of a human prior to live birth. The bill passed without a dissenting vote in either house of Congress.

Meanwhile, while still seated at his desk in the Illinois State Senate, a certain presumptive presidential nominee opposed an exact state version of the BAIPA. His name was Barack Obama, the most liberal man to ever seek the presidency of the United States of America.

Mark Caserta travels the country as a business consultant. He is a native West Virginian and resides in Cabell County. He is a regular contributor to The Herald- Dispatch editorial page.

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