Senate confirms Elena Kagan to the U.S.

Supreme Court, 63-37

WASHINGTON (Updated August 5, 2010) -- The U.S. Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to serve
as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 63-37, on August 5, 2010.
 
Voting in favor of confirmation were 58 Democrats and five Republicans.  Voting in opposition
to confirmation were 36 Republicans and one Democrat.  To view the official roll call, click
here.
 
What follows is part of the text of NRLC's earlier action alert in opposition to Kagan's
confirmation:
 
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is opposed to the confirmation of Kagan to the
Supreme Court.   President Obama nominated her to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who
retired in June.
 
In a June 23 letter to senators, posted here, NRLC noted that recently released documents from a
period (1995-99) in which Kagan was an aide to President Clinton "reveal Ms. Kagan to have
been a key strategist -- perhaps, indeed, the lead strategist within the White House -- in the
successful effort to prevent enactment of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act during the Clinton
Administration. . . . Ms. Kagan played a key role in keeping the brutal partial-birth abortion
method legal for an additional decade."  In this letter, NRLC was the first to reveal Kagan's role
in covertly persuading officials of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AGOG)
to revise a statement that ACOG later issued as a supposedly authoritative statement on the
medical aspects of the partial-birth abortion method -- a statement that was subsequently cited by
federal judges and Supreme Court justices.
 

Arkansas Right to Life teaming up to promote abortion awareness

Maybe you've seen them driving around: anti-abortion billboards saying "Black Children are an
Endangered Species" or "Black and Unwanted."
It's part of a campaign hoping to reduce abortions in the African American community. But it's
not sitting well with everyone.

Arkansas Right to Life group joined a national campaign and put up six of these controversial
bill boards in Central Arkansas.
They'll remain alongside the roads for the next month.
 
Outside Shirley Hampton's Hair Care Salon in Little Rock, there's a billboard that she doesn't
want to see.
 
"No I don't. I'd prefer it not to be there," Hampton said.
 
The ad appeared last week calling aborted black babies "unwanted" and that too many of them
face that fate. 
 
"We don't abort like that, we don't do that. The words are very too strong," Hampton said.
       
Michael Harriott, who works at a nearby temp agency, agrees that the wording is too much.
 
"I kind of feel offended about it and I'm quite sure a lot of other individuals do too. When you
say unwanted, it's like you're not invited," Harriott said.
 
"It's not meant to be offensive, it's meant to educate them," Rose Mimms said.
 
Mimms is the executive director of the Arkansas Right to Life movement. She admits the ads are
bold. But she feels they're needed to reduce the number of African-American abortions.
 
"We want to reach out to them and say that their unborn children are dying at a very high rate
that concerns us," Mimms said.
 
Numbers from Arkansas Health Department showed 1,608 abortions by African Americans in
2009; 1,630 in 2008 and 1,482 in 2007.  They're smaller than figures for white women but
Mimms feels they're still high for a minority population.
 
"We feel that this is a high risk group that we want to impact with knowledge that there are other
options out there for them," Mimms said.
 
Options like adoption and parenting support services. Harriott says minus the ad's language,
he's okay with this mission. But Hampton says make the slogan universal.
 
"Unwanted pregnancy for all teens, all races, not just saying blacks," Hampton said.

U.S. News & World Report

December 7, 1998, in an article entitled "Abortion: the untold story," quotes the Alan
Guttmacher Institute as follows: "By 1992 ... there were 2,400 abortion facilities ..." in
the U.S. The story adds that "... 70 percent of women of childbearing age lived in
counties with abortion facilities ..." and "... only 8 percent of the women who got
abortions in 1992 ... drove more than 100 miles..." to terminate their pregnancies. The
article concludes with the admission that "... abortion-rights advocates acknowledge
they don't personally know of women who wanted ... an abortion but were denied one."

The reason for the ubiquity of abortion is, in part, its universal availability. Abortion is
legal through all 9 months of pregnancy in all 50 states. Roe vs. Wade, 410 U.S. 113,
1973, established the right to abort but Doe vs. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179, 1973, ruled at
page 192, that no abortion could be prohibited if sought to terminate a pregnancy which
threatens a woman's health. The Court defined "health" so broadly as to include
"emotional, psychological, familial, and ... age ..." related factors, which made it
functionally impossible for any government to prohibit any abortion. It should also be
noted that the "Supremacy Clause" of the U.S. Constitution nullifies state law to the
contrary. Additionally, these abortions are provided through a highly extensive system of
extermination.

The Guttmacher Institute (http://www.agi-usa.org) also reports that 16 states fund

Medicaid abortions without restriction and the foregoing U.S. News article reveals that
the privately operated National Network of Abortion Funds finances abortions through
57 accounts in 29 states.

The apparatus which exterminates unborn children can't get much more "systematic"
than that

Methods of abortion
Suction Aspiration
This is the most common method of abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. General or
local anaesthesia is given to the mother and her cervix is quickly dilated. A suction curette
(hollow tube with a knife-edged tip) is inserted into the womb. This instrument is then connected
to a vacuum machine by a transparent tube. The vacuum suction, 29 times more powerful than a
household vacuum cleaner, tears the fetus and placenta into small pieces which are sucked
through the tube into a bottle and discarded.

Dilation and Curettage (D&C)

This method is similar to the suction method with the added insertion of a hook shaped knife
(curette) which cuts the baby into pieces. The pieces are scraped out through the cervix and
discarded [Note: This abortion method should not be confused with a therapeutic D&C done for
reasons other than pregancy.]

Dilation and Evacuation (D&E)

This method is used up to 18 weeks' gestation. Instead of the loop-shaped knife used in D&C
abortions, a pair of forceps is inserted into the womb to grasp part of the fetus. The teeth of the
forceps twist and tear the bones of the unborn child. This process is repeated until the fetus is
totally dismembered and removed. Usually the spine must be snapped and the skull crushed in
order to remove them.

Salt Poisoning (Saline Injection):

Used after 16 weeks (four months) when enough fluid has accumulated. A long needle injects a
strong salt solution through the mother's abdomen into the baby's sac. The baby swallows this
fluid and is poisoned by it. It also acts as a corrosive, burning off the outer layer of skin. It
normally takes somewhat over an hour for the baby to die from this. Within 24 hours, labor will
usually set in and the mother will give birth to a dead or dying baby. (There have been many
cases of these babies being born alive. They are usually left unattended to die. However, a few
have survived and later been adopted.)

Prostaglandin Chemical Abortion

This form of abortion uses chemicals developed by the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co. which cause
the uterus to contract intensely, pushing out the developing baby. The contractions are more
violent than normal, natural contractions, so the unborn baby is frequently killed by them -- some
have even been decapitated. Many, however, have also been born alive.

Hysterotomy or Caesarean Section

Used mainly in the last three months of pregnancy, the womb is entered by surgery through the
wall of the abdomen. The technique is similar to a Caesarean delivery, except that the umbilical
cord is usually cut while the baby is still in the womb, thus cutting off his oxygen supply and
causing him to suffocate. Sometimes the baby is removed alive and simply left in a corner to die
of neglect or exposure.

Partial-Birth Abortion

Five steps to a partial birth abortion:

 Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's legs with forceps.
 
 The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
 
 The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.

 The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge
the skull.
 
 The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing
the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.