Smith Decries Supreme Court's Deadly Shackles on Innocent Unborn Children
NY Court Follows Extreme Supreme Court Decision Protecting Partial-Birth Abortions
August 26, 2004
Today, New York Federal District Judge Richard Casey determined that a law, passed with large bipartisan majorities, banning the violent procedure called partial-birth abortion does not comply with an earlier 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court in favor of partial-birth abortion. Congressman Chris Smith responded:
"The Supreme Court's extreme, pro-abortion legacy was on full display today. The Supreme Court's twisted interpretation of the Constitution that allows abortion in our country for any reason, including brutal partial-birth abortions, was reflected in today's ruling in New York."
"Judge Casey explained the constraints he believed the Supreme Court put on him: 'The Supreme Court in Stenberg informed us that this gruesome procedure may be outlawed only if there exists a medical consensus that there is no circumstance in which any woman could potentially benefit from it.'"
"Future appointments to the Supreme Court will determine if it will remain legal in the United States to stab a partially-born baby in the head with scissors so their brains can be painfully sucked out. When the Supreme Court hears this case on appeal I implore them to value all human life and embrace both women and children."
Testimony in the New York trial brought to light new information about the pain that an unborn child experiences in the brutal process of a partial birth abortion. Congressman Smith said in response to those findings, "As the author of the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (HR 4420) I am stunned to learn more and more about the excruciating pain unborn children feel in partial-birth abortions and other methods of abortion. Unborn children are capable of feeling more pain than adults and newborns because their pain receptors are unprotected and they do not yet have the ability to moderate pain input."
"There is nothing compassionate nor benign about stabbing babies in the skull with scissors so their brains can be sucked out. In like manner, there is nothing compassionate or benign about other methods of abortion, like injections of chemical poison that burn and blister or dismemberment by suction machines 20 to 30 times more powerful than household vacuum cleaners."
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