Hi.

This article just about makes me cry. Literally cry.

Abortion ban is unlawful, judge says
Associated Press
August 27, 2004
NEW YORK -- A federal judge declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday in the second such ruling in three months -- even though he called the procedure "gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized."
U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey -- one of three federal judges across the country to hear simultaneous challenges to the law earlier this year -- faulted the ban for not containing an exception to protect a woman's health, something the Supreme Court has made clear is required in laws prohibiting particular types of abortion.
The law, signed last November, banned a procedure known to doctors as intact dilation and extraction. The fetus is partially removed from the womb, and the skull is punctured or crushed.
Louise Melling, director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, said her group was thrilled by the ruling.
(read the rest of the article here)

Especially the last part I included about the article - "...her group was thrilled by the ruling." - Thrilled?? THRILLED? About a baby being "...partially removed from the womb, and the skull... punctured or crushed." :'o( That just seems to me to be absolutely horrible....
I remember when I was younger, going to the various "walk-for-life" events and such, and my parent basically telling me what abortion was and seeing people's signs against it and such, and I just absolutely could not comprehend how someone could abort their baby! I remember thinking something like "How can they kill their baby when they are alive?" I just didn't understand how they could be able to kill their baby when their mother allowed them to live... and now, they won't give the same opportunity to their own child??? It just didn't make sense to me... and, really, it still doesn't.
Abortion just horrifies me. We all really need to be praying that it would be stopped, and doing anything we can do (anything that is in accourdance with God's Law, that is) to stop this, or at least make our opinions known to others, if we can, etc. I think that, as this article is straight from the paper, we all should take application to the summer class we just had this quarter (for those of you not in the highschool program at Sothside RPC, we took a writing class this summer quarter in Sunday school, and worked on writing letters to the editor, good writing habits, etc) and write a really good letter to the editor responding to this article. Now, I really am not a real good writer, but I'd be willing to give my input and ideas, etc, and maybe like Joseph or Katie (or whomever else) could sorta be in charge of actually writing the letter, as I know both of them are pretty good writers, and we could just "get the ball rolling." What do you guys think?
And, in the least, in we don't do anything else, we can certainly just pray about it!


In Him,
E. A.

song of the post:

"Precious Child" ~Debbie McCurry

quote of the post:

"Okay so how can you call a operation, "Gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized," and then turn and say that it is legal for doctors in a supposedly civilized nation to do. It makes no sense what so ever. Yet U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey did that. He referred to it with all four adjectives I used and then overturned the ban. How pray tell does he expect our nation to remain civilized if you let the doctors do an operation which you say is uncivilized? I mean this shouldn't be hard to comprehend." ~Joseph Ray (referring to the article on partial birth abortions, which I also reffered to)

verse of the post:

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." ~John 3:16
Who has a good verse on mothers taking care of their children or some verse that says something to that extent which basically refutes abortion? I was going to look one up, but I'm tired.

a few pro-life links:

Rock for Life, Abortion is , Abortion TV, The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Abortion facts
WARNING (from one of the sites): Some of the following images are very graphic. They are guaranteed to cause grief to any with a conscience. But if it is just "fetal tissue", then it should not bother you at all.