My dad use

to say , "The inmates are running the asylum".

Last week I felt like that might be true. The Supreme

Court of the United States failed to uphold a Nebraska

law prohibiting partial birth abortions by a vote of 5 to

4. Justice Scalia in his dissenting opinion said of

partial birth abortion, "The method of killing a

human child-one cannot even accurately say an

entirely unborn human child-proscribed by this

statute is so horrible that the most clinical description

of it evokes a shudder of revulsion."

Justice

Kennedy (with whom Chief Justice Rehnquist joined) in

dissenting described partial birth abortion: the

abortionist initiates the woman's natural delivery

process by causing the cervix of the woman to be dilated

... The fetus' arms and legs are delivered outside the

uterus while the fetus is alive; witnesses to the

procedure report seeing the body of the fetus moving

outside the woman's body. At this point, the abortion

procedure has the appearance of a live birth. As stated

manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live

fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent

role of an obstetrician delivering a child."

With only

the head of the fetus remaining in utero, the abortionist

tears open the skull. According to Dr. Martin Haskell, a

leading proponent of the procedure, the appropriate

instrument to be used at this stage of the abortion is a

pair of scissors. Witnesses report observing the portion

of the fetus outside the woman react to the skull

penetration. The abortionist then inserts a suction tube

and vacuums out the developing brain and other matter

found within the skull. The process of making the size of

the fetus' head smaller is given the clinically neutral

term "reduction procedure."

Brain death

does not occur until after the skull invasion, ... The

abortionist next completes the delivery of a dead fetus,

intact except for the damage to the head and the missing

contents of the skull.

You do

understand that this describes the birth of a baby and

before the head comes out totally the doctor pierces the

base of the skull and sucks out the brains of the child.

Doctors

have testified that in cases where the woman is dilated

too much, the physician will have to hold the baby inside

the woman so that he can perform the abortion. This is

barbaric! Nebraska described the reason for the law to

include concern for the life of the unborn and "for

the partially-born," in preserving the integrity of

the medical profession, and in "erecting a barrier

to infanticide." It is pathetic that five justices

of the highest court in our land would approve of such a

procedure. As Justice Scalia said in his dissent, it

"must be chalked up to the Court's inclination to

bend the rules when any effort to limit abortion, or even

to speak in opposition to abortion, is at issue." In

his dissent, Justice Thomas said the majority had to

disregard the principles that the Supreme Court follows

in every context but abortion. The majority decided on

this case, not based upon its plain meaning but on their

suspicion of it narrowing abortion rights.

It seems

the number one issue for abortion rights supporters is

having unlimited rights to take human life without regard

for babies, society, or natural law.

To add

insult to injury, I read last week that Archbishop

Desmond Tutu said he wanted the abolition of the death

penalty. He went on to say," I can't understand why

a country (speaking of the United States) that's so

committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty

an obscenity."

The

majority of the states now use lethal injection as the

method of executing a person who has been convicted of a

capital offense. All that I have read about this method

indicates it is the "most humane form of

execution."

It is sad

that in this country we allow abortionists to kill

innocent babies before they are born by ripping their

skulls open and sucking their brains out and society

considers it a woman's right to be protected. On the

other hand society is more concerned that a person found

guilty of murder, who goes through our legal system with

all its appeals, should not be sentenced to die for his

crime using "the most humane form of

execution."

Why doesn't

Archbishop Tutu use his influence to speak out against

partial birth abortion? Why are people so concerned about

the death penalty for criminals but not concerned about

the rights of innocent babies?

Maybe the

inmates are running the asylum.

Chuck Griffith is

pastor of Fayette Assembly of God, 1144 Ga. Highway 92

South in Fayetteville, 770-719-0322.

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