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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PT Stewie" data-source="post: 932303" data-attributes="member: 12889">Pathetic and sad.......An urgent message from National Right to Life President Carol Tobias: Tormenting unborn babies in our nation's capital has to stop!Dear Pro-Life American:Did you know that in our nation's capital, unborn children daily are subjected to terribly painful deaths, even during the sixth and seventh months of pregnancy, or even later? Did you know that these practices are perfectly legal -- because in the District of Columbia, abortion is now legal at any point in pregnancy, for any reason, as long as someone is willing to pay the abortionist for the gruesome "service"?Our nation was created when the original group of sovereign states came together and formed a federated republic -- the United States of America. Article I of the Constitution established that the national seat of government would be placed forever not within any state, but in a special Federal District -- and that the Congress would "exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District."In other words, our nation's capital city was to be governed directly by the elected representatives from throughout the nation. This means, of course, that our congressional representatives -- and ultimately we, who elect them -- are responsible for the policies that govern our nation's capital city.So then, what would the Framers of our Constitution say if they returned today -- and learned, to their horror, that well-developed unborn babies are legally being put to death, in terrible pain, virtually within the shadow of the U.S. Capitol?One abortion "clinic," situated not far from the Capitol Mall and the White House, openly advertises abortion on demand up to the beginning of the seventh month of pregnancy -- payable by a credit card. ("Checks and money orders are not accepted.") This abortion facility mentions the method used for its late abortions -- "dilatation and evacuation," also known as "dilation and evacuation" or "D&E." However, they do not explain that in a D&E -- <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130711204251/http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/Fetal_Pain/AnandPainReport.pdf" target="_blank">shown in this medical illustration</a> -- the abortionist grasps the little arms and legs of the well-developed unborn baby and literally tears them off, one by one, by brute manual force.The baby is alive, of course, at the beginning of this dismemberment abortion. The baby certainly experiences excruciating pain as her limbs are twisted off with steel forceps. Another abortionist advertises abortions "in Washington, D.C.," even in the seventh and eighth months. He describes using a different method -- employing ultrasound while thrusting a needle into the heart of the unborn child, and then injecting a lethal substance (either air, or a drug). This "service," he advises, is "not inexpensive," and that "payment can only be made by a bank electronic transfer." In testimony in a federal lawsuit, a nationally recognized expert on fetal pain, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130711204251/http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/Fetal_Pain/AnandPainReport.pdf" target="_blank">Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand</a>, testified that in a heart-penetrating procedure, the baby would feel pain "from the point of entry of the needle into the fetal body to the point when fetal demise occurs as a result of cardiac arrest."Technical medical jargon -- but underneath it, a terrible reality. All of this is happening today -- virtually in the shadow of the Capitol.Who can put a stop to this? The Congress of the United States, and -- if he would -- the President.</blockquote>

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