When pro-life stalwart Rick Santorum introduced the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in February 2003, everyone in Congress knew what he was talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before that, when Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee first coined the term “partial-birth abortion” in 1995, people in the room had a pretty good idea from where he was coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’ll go so far as to say that anyone who is vaguely familiar with the divisive abortion issue are more than familiar with the term “partial-birth abortion”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But to clear things up, allow us to use the language<\/a> that was ultimately passed 281-142 at the 108th Congress just over 17 years ago: You will hear from other corners<\/a> that the term “partial-birth” is not a medical term. These corners will alternately refer to “dilation and extraction” (D&X) or “intact dilation and extraction” (intact D&E). It still does nothing to veer away from the sheer inhumanity of the barbaric procedure: removing the fetus intact by dilating a pregnant woman’s cervix, then pulling the entire body out through the birth canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The language here is extremely important. Impacted molars get extracted. Infants in-utero need to be forcibly pulled out of their mother’s womb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Xavier Becerra was one of the 142 dissenters when Congress voted<\/a> October 2, 2003. He was not one of the 12 who abstained. Becerra knew exactly what was on the table, and he knew exactly what the procedure entails. But today, Joe Biden’s Secretary for Health and Human Services wants you to believe that partial-birth abortion isn’t even a “thing”. He said as much when pressed on the issue at last week’s congressional hearings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Defines a “partial-birth abortion” as an abortion in which the person performing the abortion: (1) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the mother’s body, or, in the case of a breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the mother’s body; and (2) performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n