Local Pro-Life leaders praise partial birth law, vow to see it through court challenges
Official New Jersey Right to Life Press Release 
NEW JERSEY RIGHT TO LIFE
113 NORTH AVENUE WEST
CRANFORD, NJ 07016
For Immediate Release
Contact Marie Tasy, Public & Legislative Affairs Director (732) 846-2000
www.njrtl.org
November 5, 2003--
New Jersey Right to Life Thanks President Bush for Signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Into Law
NJRTL Officials Attend Bill Signing Ceremony in Washington, D.C.
November 5, 2003--
NJRTL President Traude Barbiero and Public & Legislative Affairs Director Marie Tasy, were among the invited guests who attended today's bill signing ceremony to witness President Bush signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban into law.
New Jersey Right to Life, the state's largest pro-life organization thanked President Bush on behalf of the NJ Pro-Life Community for signing the Partial Birth Abortion Ban into law today. Marie Tasy, Public & Legislative Affairs Director for New Jersey Right to Life, said, "We are gratified to finally have a President who agrees with the majority of Americans that partial birth abortion is brutal, inhumane and should be banned. We applaud the President for signing this bill into law."
The bill signed by the President defines partial birth abortion as delivery of a fetus "until, in the case of a head first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of the breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus."
President Bush's signature on the bill is a validation of New Jersey Right to Life's hard fought battle to ban this heinous procedure, which is especially significant since NJ performs a disproportionate number of partial birth abortions. This fact was confirmed by the Bergen Record in a September 15, 1996 article, which reported that Metropolitan Medical Center in Englewood, NJ performs 1,500 partial birth abortions per year. "If you do the math, that's approximately 4 partial birth abortions per day," said Public & Legislative Affairs Director Marie Tasy. She pointed out that the doctors who perform them told the Bergen Record, that, "most are done on healthy mothers of healthy babies."
Tasy commenting on the premature lawsuits filed on Halloween by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights said, "It's time these groups stopped masquerading as compassionate, pro-woman, mainstream advocates. What they're defending is merciless, anti-woman and beyond extreme," said Marie Tasy. "Partial birth abortion is never necessary to save a woman's life or preserve her health and is morally repugnant to the majority of citizens in NJ and across America who want it banned. It is only the most extreme pro-abortion element who believe partial birth abortions should remain legal, and thankfully, those people are a very small minority," said Tasy.
"No matter how many times these pro-abortion groups go running to a court of law to interfere with the will of the people, they cannot change the court of public opinion which is resoundingly in favor of outlawing partial birth abortion. Partial Birth Abortions will be banned in this country and in our state," said Marie Tasy. "It's only a matter of time."
New Jersey Right to Life is the State's Largest and Oldest Pro-Life Organization
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