With Questions About Constitutionality of New Law, Will Partial-Birth Abortions Ever Be Banned?
by Rusty Pugh and Jody Brown November 7, 2003 (AgapePress) – An outspoken pro-life activist and pastor says the partial-birth abortion ban is a bogus piece of legislation that “even the devil himself” would have signed.Pastor Flip Benham, national director of Operation Rescue / Operation Save America, says the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 signed into law this week by President Bush will not save the life of a single child. For one thing, he says, abortionists will simply change the procedure to find another way to kill the unborn child. Secondly, according to Benham, no one is going to police the action of abortionists.”There is no one that is going to get close to the abortion mill,” he says. “The health department doesn’t go there, the IRS doesn’t go there, social services don’t go there — and the police department rarely if ever goes there, unless it’s to arrest Christians who are outside of the mill. There is no one that is going to police the activity in the abortion mi