LIES!!

As all of you know, the Partial Birth Abortion act was signed into law by President Bush, then quickly halted earlier this month. When I wrote about it, I mentioned the distortions being told about the bill, that it didn’t have any protection for the health of the mother. Most liberals are willing to run with that distortion, always speaking about “health” of the mother, never saying it has no protections for the “life” of the mother.

Not Tammy Watts in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In a rallying cry for the annual “March for Choice” on Washington, DC, she tells the story of eight years ago finding out the child she was carrying suffered from a terrible syndrome known as Trisomy-13. The child would be born terribly deformed, die very quickly if it lived at all and perhaps even:

“..could conceivably die inside my womb, poisoning my system with the toxins released into my bloodstream”

A terrible and heart-wrenching situation no one deserves to be in. They decided to “terminate the pregnancy” and no one can blame them. But Ms. Watts then goes on to say:

“It was the right decision for us, given our particular set of circumstances, and we are forever grateful to our doctor, who performed a procedure that allowed us to hold her, love her and say goodbye. We named her Mackenzie Blaine.

But if the legislation that Bush signed into law earlier this month had been in place, I would have been prevented from making the decision that protected Mackenzie from further suffering and protected my own life.”

LIES!!! LIES!!! LIES!!!!

The pregnancy put her life at risk, not just the babies. Because of that, she would have been allowed to have a partial-birth abortion. The law reads:

“This subsection does not apply to a partial-birth abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself. This subsection takes effect 1 day after the enactment.”

Yet, people like Tammy Watts prattle on like she, as the mother, would have had no recourse to save her own life. It’s vile vermin like this cause so many raging, fist-shaking fits on the pro-life side. No matter how much we try to spell it out to the great unwashed out there, morons still go on, lying and cheating, all in an effort to assure that 3,200 babies a day are killed in abortion clinics across the United States and not even a tiny reduction to that number will occur.