This came to me in my email today from Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice…the FIRST piece of this wonderful news!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2007
Dear ,
Today we applaud the Supreme Court of the United States for its decision to uphold the national ban on partial-birth abortion and outlaw the gruesome procedure. The ACLJ filed amicus briefs in both cases before the Supreme Court – including one on behalf of some 80 members of Congress and more than 320,000 Americans.
This is a monumental victory for the preservation of human life. By rejecting the lawsuits challenging the national ban, the high court demonstrated that this horrible practice has no place in the medical community. We’re delighted and encouraged that a majority of the Justices of the high court determined that it was time to bring an end to what only can be described as infanticide. This decision represents an important shift in the ongoing battle to protect human life and represents a very significant pro-life victory in the abortion debate.
As a faithful member of the ACLJ, you’ve helped us be very active in supporting the government’s defense of the federal ban, including our brief in the Nebraska case and the brief in the case out of California.
The 5-4 ruling came in the consolidated cases of Gonzales v. Carhart (05-380) and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood (05-1382).You can read the Supreme Court decision here. Thanks for your continued support of the ACLJ – today is a monumental victory!
This is a monumental victory for the preservation of human life. By rejecting the lawsuits challenging the national ban, the high court demonstrated that this gruesome procedure has no place in the medical community.
Jay Sekulow,
Chief Counsel
American Center for Law & Justice
This video also came from Jay and the ACLJ:
Dear ,
Together, we have worked long and hard in the fight for human life. And today, we celebrate a monumental victory in the abortion debate.
I know you will want to take just a few moments to view this video report I prepared for you from Washington, D.C., where the Justices of the Supreme Court took a determined stand for life.
This is a significant victory … won with the tenacity and grit of pro-life Americans.
The highest court of our land has given credence to our argument – made in trial courts, the courts of appeals, and ultimately the Supreme Court: the government has a compelling interest in protecting the life of the unborn.
In their decision, the Court recognized the inherent right of the government to use its ”voice and its regulatory authority to show its profound respect for the life within the woman.”
”The Act’s stated purposes are protecting innocent human life from a brutal and inhumane procedure and protecting the medical community’s ethics and reputation.”
-Justice Kennedy
I am proud to celebrate this triumph in the fight for human life with faithful members of the ACLJ. Not only have you demonstrated your support in our efforts to eradicate this horrendous procedure from our national landscape, but you have also fought with us in the battle to appoint and confirm conservative, God-fearing, life-honoring Justices to the benches of the court system. Today’s victory speaks volumes to the incredible impact of our vigilance.
I encourage you to watch my special video report and read my newly updated trial notebook entry and the ACLJ’s press release on this critically important decision handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States. I’ve also highlighted significant quotes from today’s decision.
I thank God for this victory. And I thank God for members like you … who have made it possible for us to fight for LIFE in the highest court of our land.
In the wake of the brutal and senseless tragedy that has marred this week for all Americans, it seems fitting that today we celebrate a stand for life.
And finally, from the Catholic League:
April 18, 2007
SUPREMES BAN INFANTICIDE
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, spoke today about the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to ban partial-birth abortions:
“The late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a supporter of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, once called partial-birth abortion ‘infanticide.’ So has former New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court finally made the killing of innocent human beings who are 80 percent born illegal. The abortionists can now use their scissors to cut paper instead of cutting a child’s head to pieces.
“In 1995, Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, went on national television saying he ‘lied through [his] teeth’ when he ‘just went out there and spouted the party line’ about how rare partial-birth abortion was. Ever since, we’ve known that thousands of cases of infanticide occur each year, making the U.S. the only nation in the civilized world to allow this barbaric procedure. Until now.
“We are waiting for the anti-Catholic bigots to go bonkers over the fact that all five of the justices who voted against infanticide are Roman Catholic. Consider that when Samuel Alito was nominated, feminist Eleanor Smeal ominously warned that if he gets approved, ‘the majority of the Court would be Roman Catholics, which would underrepresent other religions, not to mention nonbelievers.’ NPR’s Dahlia Lithwick opined that ‘People are very, very much talking about the fact that Alito would be the fifth Catholic in the Supreme Court if confirmed.’ And when John Roberts was nominated before Alito, his Catholicism was batted around by the bigots to such an extent that the Catholic League devoted an entire section in its 2005 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism to all the vicious remarks made against him.
“Of course, being Catholic does not make one pro-life. Consider such Catholic stalwarts as Cuomo, Giuliani, Pataki, Kennedy, Kerry, Pelosi, Leahy, Durbin, Dodd…
And I am so thankful for the decision today and for all the lives that will be saved by this decision. THANK YOU GOD!
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