PBA Summary: Saves none, wasted years

Dozens of pro-life leaders (see their names below) have condemned Gonzales v. Carhart, the U.S. Supreme Court's brutally-wicked ruling upholding the partial-birth abortion "ban." Brace yourself for American RTL's summary of the PBA fiasco:

  • Open Letter: Read the widely-reported open letter to Dr. James Dobson which exposes the wickedness of the PBA ban. Written by ARTL's Brian Rohrbough, we published this letter as full-page advertisements in major newspapers around the country targeting headquarter cities of major ministries. The courageous pro-life signers of this letter included HLI's Rev. Tom Euteneuer, Operation Rescue National's Flip Benham, ALL's Judie Brown, and Ambassador Alan Keyes.
  • Dr. Dobson's Admission: Our open letter also appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette, the local newspaper for the headquarters city of Focus on the Family. Days later the leading supporter of the ban, Dr. James Dobson, conceded in writing that, "Ending partial-birth abortion... does not save a single human life." -Dr. James Dobson, May 2007, FocusAction.org
  • PBA Ruling Analysis: Read Colorado RTL's PBA Ban Analysis which first exposed the brutality and wickedness of the U.S. Supreme Court's Gonzales v. Carhart opinion which implements a four-inch variation on a standard partial-birth abortion, "permitting" the abortionist to pull the same baby out to the navel, rather than to the neck, before killing it.
  • Read the Ruling: Read for yourself the PBA ruling itself from the SupremeCourtUS.gov official site and notice that this ruling, perhaps the most brutally wicked ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, is a virtual manual with instructions describing various methods for "legally" aborting a late-term child.
  • Judge Roy Moore Apologizes: Former Alabama Chief Justice Judge Roy Moore on Denver radio publicly apologized and repented for his initial celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court's PBA ruling. Read ARTL's transcript or listen to Judge Moore's analysis of the PBA ruling during which he stated: "Things aren't always as they seem. And when this [Gonzales vs. Carhart] ruling came out, many praised the ruling; in fact I was one of them. I had not fully read the ruling... But then when you read the Carhart opinion, you realize what they have done is atrocious. … When I heard someone say, 'this opinion does not save a single human life,' they are correct… I likened this Carhart opinion, to... just like in Germany, a court in Germany, during the Holocaust coming out and saying, The Congress has just passed a rule that we couldn't gas these Jews but it certainly allows us to put them in a deep ditch and cover them with dirt while they are still breathing. You see, that is how atrocious this Carhart opinion is. It says you can still kill them, you just have to do it a different way. Now if anybody doesn't believe that that is what this opinion says, I invite them to read it. ... You have just got to read the opinion… [then Judge Moore quotes the ruling verbatim] 'In addition, if intact D&E [PBA] is truly necessary in some circumstances, a prior injection to kill the fetus allows the doctor to perform the procedure given that the act's prohibition only applies to the delivery of a living fetus.' … We all stand in need of some correction. And I can admit I was too, I needed that. I spoke too quickly. But you know, all you have to do is read the opinion."
  • $250 Millions Dollar PBA Fundraiser: The PBA "ban" was a cash cow. This ARTL spreadsheet, compiled by a Michigan CPA volunteering for ARTL, documents that the pro-life industry raised more than a quarter of a billion dollars on a "ban" that never had the ability to save a single child, although it was great as a long-term industry fundraiser. (See also ProlifeProfiles.com/NRTL#conflict.)
  • Focus on the Strategy: Watch Focus on the Strategy II online (or get the DVD) to see that the PBA fiasco wasted 15 years of pro-life effort and yet never had the authority to stop even a single abortion.
  • Regulations: The PBA Ban is a typical example of well-meaning but immoral 'pro-life' legislation that violates God's enduring command, Do not murder, because it ends with, "and then you can kill the baby." See American RTL's 15 stunning and irrefutable bullets titled, Oppose regulations because...

American RTL's PBA Fiasco Summary: Gonzales v. Carhart is the most brutal ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court and is a virtual manual on how abortionists can continue to perform late-term and even partial-birth abortions. The ban and ruling explicitly keep partial-birth abortion legal with the justices declaring what the misguided regulation obviously indicates, that the abortionist can deliver the baby to the navel (a four-inch variation on standard PBA) and then kill her; and he can even perform a text-book PBA if the mother is "over dialated;" and the justices list other ways the same late-term child can be killed, and they suggest that these other methods may indeed be more violent (and thus more painful to the fetus) than PBA itself, but they justify this in that the ban improves the public perception of the abortion industry.

Leaders Not Celebrating, but Condemning, the PBA Ruling

Ambassador Alan Keyes
Rev. Tom Euteneuer, Human Life Int'l
John Archibold, co-founder AUL & Nat'l RTL
Dr. Charles Rice, Notre Dame Law School
Dr. Patrick Johnston, ProLifePhysicians.org
Jim Rudd, Covenant News
Cliff Zarsky, Corpus Christi RTL
Chris Mohr, Ohio RTL board member
Erik Whittington, Rock for Life
John Lofton, The American View
Eric Guttormson, TheologyOnline.com
Brian Martin, TheologyWeb.com
Jim Anderson, LifeCommercials.com
Cal Zastrow, Michigan Citizens for Life
Judy Zabik, Michigan Personhood Leader
Matt Trewhella, Missionaries to the Preborn
Brannon Howse, Christian Worldview Net
David Brownlow, OR U.S. Senate Candidate
Steve Schulin, MD Independent Party
Keith Humphrey, Life Support
Gregg Jackson, L.A. Talk Radio Host
Louis Wein, former NYC Ass't Mayor
Steve Curtis, Frm. State Chair, CO. Rep. Party
Julie Niccum, Wisconsin Personhood Leader
Jo Scott, ProLife Colorado
Gino Geraci, Calvary Chapel South Denver
Bob Enyart, Denver Bible Church
Chuck Baldwin, Crossroad Baptist Church
Rev. C. Childress, LEARN, BlackGenocide
John Haskins, Underground Journal
Eve Silver, Clear Research
Rep. Don Dwyer, MD House of Reps.
Leslie Hanks, Colorado Right To Life
Flip Benham, Operation Rescue / OSA
Bob Dornan, 20-year U.S. Congressman
Nellie Gray, D.C. March for Life
Brian Rohrbough, Life Commercials
Judie Brown, American Life League
Judge Roy Moore, MoralLaw.org

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