Abortion doctors circumvent partial-birth ban by using deadly drugs
WASHINGTON (BP)--The abortion industry has found a way around the Supreme Court's support for a federal ban on a gruesome technique -- shoot the unborn baby up with deadly drugs before delivering the child almost totally to complete the procedure.
The Boston Globe reported Aug. 10 many abortion doctors in Boston and other parts of the United States are using the new method to protect themselves from partially delivering a live baby and violating the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Act. The partial delivery of a dead child instead of a live one may violate the spirit of the 2003 law, but it apparently does not transgress the letter of that ban.
"This shows the length to which physicians who have left their Hippocratic Oath in the dust and have become frontline soldiers in the culture of death are willing to go to perpetuate the killing of often-viable unborn babies," said Richard Land, president of...