The return of PBA?

From an email I received...

After all our efforts to see the horror of partial-birth abortion officially banned in this country ...

After Congress voted to ban it, the President signed the bill into law, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld that law ...

Even after all this, within minutes of that Court ruling, pro-abortion members of Congress introduced a bill which would totally thwart the will of the people - reversing the decision of Congress and the President and undoing the ruling of the Supreme Court.

These members of Congress have put some ''spin'' on their bill: they call it the ''Freedom of Choice'' Act - but it's not really about freedom of choice.

It's actually a slap in the face to the American people ... it's a tip of the hat to the abortion doctors and their lobbyists ... and it's a very real threat against the lives of unborn babies.

Support for this bill flooded in from the entire abortion lobby -- the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, N.O.W., NARAL: Pro-Choice America, and others. Which means millions of dollars will almost certainly flow into the campaign for this legislation.

The bill(s) in question are HR 1964 and S 1173. Despite their name (Freedom of Choice), the purpose of these bills would be to re-instate the (completely medically unnecessary) practice of Partial Birth Abortion in this country.

Partial Birth Abortion is exactly what it sounds like. If this "procedure" were performed 2 minutes later it would be infanticide and we would bring formal indictments against anyone who perpetrated it.

It is a travesty that 121 members of Congress are proud to have their names listed as sponsors or co-sponsors of these bills. This just goes to show the depths that we as a nation have lowered ourselves to.

I won't list all the (101) Representatives connected to the bill but I will list the (20) Senators.

Sponsor:
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA] (no surprise)
Cosponsors [as of 2007-10-20]
Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT]
Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Hillary Clinton [D-NY]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I-CT]
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D-NJ]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]
Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]
Sen. Barack Obama [D-IL]
Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

(see any familiar names?)

On GovTrack.us you can look up bills and (just for fun) you can see where your Senator and Representative lies on political spectrum map.