Excerpt from Townhall.com:
Court Backs Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion
The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
What people are saying about the ruling:
Albert Mohler says, “April 18, 2007 will go down in history as a landmark day in the struggle to recover human dignity and the sanctity of human life. This ruling is an important step toward that recovery — and we still have a very long way to go.”
From the Stand to Reason blog, we hear this, “Hallelujah!!!!! The Supreme Court has upheld the national ban on partial-birth abortion – the abortion that isn’t abortion, but infanticide. Finally!”
From Focus on the Family, we read, “Today, the Supreme Court takes the scalpel out of the hands of abortionists who would brutally and fatally puncture the skulls of babies who are just inches and moments away from birth,” said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior analyst for bioethics for Focus on the Family Action.”
I would like to highlight the key aspect of this procedure that reflects the tragedy of our human thought processes in our age. As Carrie Gordon Earll accurately describes the procedure, abortionists “brutally and fatally puncture the skulls of babies who are just inches and moments away from birth.” What is so difficult for a nation of people to see the inherent evil in such a practice?
