Lethal Injections Offer Legal Shield In Abortion

(Boston Globe) In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many abortion providers in Boston and around the country have adopted a defensive tactic. To avoid any chance of partially delivering a live fetus, they are injecting fetuses with lethal drugs before procedures.

In June, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that inmates on death row can challenge lethal injection by claiming that the chemicals used are too painful and, therefore, amount to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution. Hmmmm.

1 comment:

Christina Dunigan said...

What kills me is this:

1. First, they were claiming that PBA was ever so rare, hardly anybody was doing it. Now they're coming out of the woodwork saying that they've been forced to modify how they do it.

2. The digoxin injection has been routine in abortion practice, including in George Tiller's National Abortion Fedeartion member facily (if I recall correctly) for at least a decade. It's been touted as perfectly safe. But now, these whiners are complaining that they're being "forced" to subject women to something that's needlessly painful (for the woman) and dangerous (for the woman). Who is lying? The guys who have been saying for a decade that the digoxin injections are safe and painless, or the guys now saying that it's dangerous and unnecessary?

3. Observe that not one single writer in the MSM has noticed these two paradoxes.