The National Right to Life Committee has since made fundraising calls in which they tell pro-life Americans that if they'll only send in some money, that's what is needed to get partial birth homicide banned.

In 2000, then the GOP's nominee, President George W. Bush made a promise to the pro-life Republicans who managed to sneak out of the basement at their party's National Convention -- saying if a partial birth ban is put on his desk, he will sign it. Cheers went up from the floor in Philadelphia as the GOP's grass roots, which are largely pro-life, at least had representation on the floor without regard to a lack of it on the stage. The House of Representatives has adopted the ban, so the only hold-up now is the U.S. Senate.

And that leaves Trent Lott, whose comments about a Dixiecrat have some pundits thinking he may not return to the job as Senate Majority Leader after all. Lott had been the Senate leader until "Jumpin Jim" Jeffords betrayed those who voted for him in Vermont by crossing the aisle shortly after his re-election. Will Republican Senators now pick someone new to lead that distinguished deliberative body and also adopt a federal ban on partial birth homicide? Are pro-life Americans waiting anxiously to find out?

Probably, but there is little hope for newborn babies, and no hope for unborn babies in spite of what everyone thinks. That's because the partial birth issue is one that Republicans are only using to keep pro-life Americans on the reservation. The procedure is not abortion, as a pregnancy cannot be aborted when it is already complete. The killing occurs when a baby is being born and some psychotic "doctor" stabs a little one in the back of his or her head while two legs kick and tiny arms hopelessly grasp for life.

Partial birth is evil homicide plain and simple. And the penalty for such a crime in every state is severe. That the GOP and media continue to mislabel it is merely a farce used to make us think the Republicans are doing something about abortion. Meanwhile state's attorneys and judges from across the country, many of whom are Republicans, refuse to enforce laws against the murder of newborn babies. Many pro-life voters don't realize partial birth homicide is already a crime that is simply allowed to occur.

But those who have been committed pro-life activists and established leaders will tell you that the issue is about giving the NRTL committee something to hoot and holler about while President Bush puts another "David Souter" judge on the Supreme Court. With that done, they will simply declare any ban on partial birth homicide to be unconstitutional, precisely as the seven-to-nine Republican-controlled Supreme Court of the United States did in 2000 when Nebraska adopted a law specifically against this kind of first degree murder.

The decision by the Supreme Court protecting a right to "choose" murder had the support of three Republican judges appointed by Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush. Justices Stevens, O'Conner, and Souter joined two Clinton appointees in 2000 and Nebraska's partial birth ban was overturned. Pro-life voters who get fooled by these Republicans are a shame, but those who aren't fooled and go about promoting GOP canards are the devil's minions. It is up to the reader to decide in which camp the National Right to Life Committee belongs.

While misled pro-lifers are dancing around the maypole to the tune that is whistled by NRTL, singing praises for the GOP about partial birth, another million babies are going to be slaughtered in the thirtieth year of abortion on demand, that being the year of our Lord two thousand and three. Meanwhile, the GOP is preparing for a Bush nomination and confirmation of some death-culture judge for the Supreme Court who will likely vote down any federal ban on partial birth murder. The GOP giveth, and the GOP taketh away.

Pro-life voters from all over the country should take note of who the happy players are in this liar's game -- the ones linking partial-birth homicide to abortion and touting their opposition to it. By their fruits, ye shall know them.

It's been thirty years since Roe v. Wade. And Republicans have had the White House with control over Supreme Court appointments for eighteen of those years. They've appointed seven out of the nine justices on the court. To this day, Republican politicians will stand there and tell you everything you want to hear about how horrible abortion is and how much they hate it. But when the time comes to really do something about the ongoing murder of little babies, the GOP folds like a cheap suit.

Dave Franklin is a writer for the American Reformation Project and USA Daily . He works in telecommunications and has over ten years of experience as a technology consultant for government agencies, including the Department of State and the Joint Staff. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

Dave Franklin can be reached at:dfrankli@patriot.net

Published in the December 22, 2002 issue of  Ether Zone.
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