DANIEL WOODARD: STOPPING TERRORISM…..IN THE WOMB
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In 2004, abortionist Dr. Stephen T. Chasen said in New York federal district court that “the fetal head is extracted by placing the forceps around it and crushing it.” Dr. Chasen went on to say that he did not have “any caring or concern for the fetus whose head [he was] crushing.” Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, another abortionist, said:
“For the vast majority of D&Es [it is] necessary either [to] crush or collapse the fetal skull.”
She told the judge she does not use the word “crush” when speaking to her patients.
After reading these awful quotes, I was inspired to start collecting petitions for a ballot initiative to ban the decapitation and skull crushing of unborn children. ‘The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban’ was approved for circulation by the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Thursday April 22. I started the Stop Decapitation Network in order to collect 12,844 signatures to place the measure on the 2010 or 2012 ballot. The ban would become law if a majority of North Dakotans vote for it. I chose the ballot route instead of the legislature to expedite the process: the soonest that it could become law legislatively would be in the summer of 2011. If I put it on this November ballot, it becomes law right away.
The Petition Title reads:
“This initiated measure would create a new chapter to the North Dakota Century Code making it a crime for a physician to knowingly decapitate or crush the skull of a living unborn child or to incidentally cause serious bodily injury to the mother due to a resulting skull fragment; medical treatment could be used to save the life of the mother if the death of the child is incidental to the treatment.”
This ban is necessary to effectively prevent any doctors from cutting off the heads and crushing the skulls of unborn children. This legislation would generally effect later-term abortions. To be found guilty, the abortionist has to knowingly grasp the skull of the unborn child and cut it off or crush it.
North Dakota’s one abortion clinic does abortions up through 15 weeks. I do not think the baby is big enough at that point for a physician to knowingly grasp and crush the skull or cut off the head. But ND’s hospitals and abortion clinic are permitted to do abortions at any stage of pregnancy. Any abortionist could come into the state, open a clinic, and start doing that.
Dr. Leroy Carhart is an abortion doctor in nearby Nebraska. He is notorious for doing partial birth abortions. But what is not widely known is that he also cuts off the heads and crushes the skulls of unborn children. He and a number of other abortionists have discussed in great detail in federal court how they do this. For example, during Dr. Carhart’s lawsuit against the partial-birth abortion ban, when asked about what actions he takes that would be fatal to the child, Dr. William Fitzhugh said:
“Well, number one, I like to interrupt the umbilical cord. Number two…we break up parts in the uterus and we crush skulls.”
My goal is to ensure that this never happens in North Dakota like it is happening in other states.
Constitutionally speaking, could decapitation and skull crushing be prevented? Much depends on the “swing” Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy. In his opinion for the majority of the Court in Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124, 159-60 (2007), which upheld a ban on partial-birth abortions before as well as after viability, Justice Kennedy wrote:
“It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know: that she allowed a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of her unborn child, a child assuming the human form.”
Of the most common second-trimester abortion method, dilation and extraction (D &E), Kennedy wrote that:
“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn limb from limb.” [Stenberg v. Carhart, 350 U.S. 914, 958-59 (Kennedy, J., dissenting).]
Kennedy has also stated:
“[T]he States have an important constitutional role in defining their interests in the abortion debate. It is only with this principle in mind that Nebraska’s interests can be given proper weight. . . . States ... have an interest in forbidding medical procedures which, in the State’s reasonable determination, might cause the medical profession or society as a whole to become insensitive, even disdainful, to life, including life in the human fetus. . . . A State may take measures to ensure the medical profession and its members are viewed as healers, sustained by a compassionate and rigorous ethic and cognizant of the dignity and value of human life, even life which cannot survive without the assistance of others.” [Id. at 962.] (Emphasis added).
It is hard to imagine that J. Kennedy would not prove sympathetic to a North Dakota decision to ban the decapitation and skull crushing of unborn children. More than a problem for the courts, what we are dealing with here is a moral/political problem. Let me propose that if we acted in the same fashion against the decapitation and skull crushing of unborn children as we would respond if the same crimes were legalized for adults, then such crimes and every other crime against unborn children would be quickly and permanently prohibited.
It is unconscionable and unthinkable that any “doctor” who claims to care for the health of others would remove the heads of children or crush them and toss them in the trash. This is not something that much of the media feels it needs to report, because they know that people would think it is too awful to be true. What is perhaps most surprising is that abortion doctors are willing to testify to it without remorse. It says a lot about how far we have sunk as a nation that we would need to pass a law banning the decapitation and skull crushing of babies waiting to be born. The barbarians of old were not even as savage as some abortion ‘doctors.’
It is supremely ironic that we accuse Islamic governments of savagely decapitating their own people, yet they accuse Western governments of savagely decapitating their own children. This inhumane killing of the most helpless and innocent among us must stop now. None of it is justified.
Pro-abortion groups are ridiculously beholden to this legal ability to kill other people. This support for slaughter in the name of “compassion” for the “troubled mother” is insanity! It has gotten so bad that as Jill Stanek reported, there was a Texas bill that actually made it out of committee that would have almost entirely decriminalized killing a baby up to 1 year after birth. Why is adoption not an option? Why is it not always the first impulse based on the sacredness of innocent life?
‘The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban’ certainly makes people aware of what is happening. I was not even aware until last year while lobbying for other pro-life legislation. I knew that abortion doctors cut off arms and legs, but I did not know they cut off heads and crush skulls as well. I see this legislation as an incremental way to provide protection for unborn children. Especially for a ballot measure, I wanted something substantial and easy to understand. It is because it is so easy to understand that it comes off as grotesque. It should pass easily on Election Day.
On a final note, during a federal district court case out of New York on March 31, 2004, abortionist Timothy Johnson testified:
“When one does a D&E [abortion], technically one of the challenges is to remove the fetal skull, partly because it is relatively large, partly because it is relatively calcified, and it is difficult to grasp on occasion. So one of the common technical challenges of a dismemberment D&E is what is called a free-floating head or a head that has become disattached and needs to be removed. This can lead to more passages of instruments through the cervix. And technically it is difficult to grasp the head; it is round, it slips out of the instruments that we generally use. Either those instruments or the head can be extruded outside the uterus and cause perforation [tearing of the uterus].”
You can download petitions from the Stop Decapitation website at:
Feel free to call us if you want to help collect petitions or make a donation. Let me know especially if you can commit to collecting at least 5 petitions per day until August 1. Each petition has 25 lines. My hope is that you can at least collect that many. After you are finished, take the petitions to any bank, courthouse, or most businesses, and ask for a Notary so they can be notarized. Then mail your completed petitions to:
Stop Decapitation Network
PO Box 845
Dickinson, ND 58602
A few pieces of advice: 1) The ND Secretary of State will not accept any petitions until Stop Decapitation Network has collected 12,844 petitions. 2) When circulating, you can simply ask people if they want to sign a “pro-life petition”. 3) Sign somebody else’s petition. 4) Be sure that the full street address, full name of city, and zip are written, and 5) The deadline for the Nov. 2010 ballot is Aug. 4, 2010.
Daniel Woodard sponsored The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban. He lobbied for pro-life legislation last year, graduated with a degree in Politics from Ave Maria University, and resides in Dickinson, ND. He is currently collecting petitions for the November 2010 ballot.
In 2004, abortionist Dr. Stephen T. Chasen said in New York federal district court that “the fetal head is extracted by placing the forceps around it and crushing it.” Dr. Chasen went on to say that he did not have “any caring or concern for the fetus whose head [he was] crushing.” Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, another abortionist, said:
“For the vast majority of D&Es [it is] necessary either [to] crush or collapse the fetal skull.”
She told the judge she does not use the word “crush” when speaking to her patients.
After reading these awful quotes, I was inspired to start collecting petitions for a ballot initiative to ban the decapitation and skull crushing of unborn children. ‘The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban’ was approved for circulation by the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Thursday April 22. I started the Stop Decapitation Network in order to collect 12,844 signatures to place the measure on the 2010 or 2012 ballot. The ban would become law if a majority of North Dakotans vote for it. I chose the ballot route instead of the legislature to expedite the process: the soonest that it could become law legislatively would be in the summer of 2011. If I put it on this November ballot, it becomes law right away.
The Petition Title reads:
“This initiated measure would create a new chapter to the North Dakota Century Code making it a crime for a physician to knowingly decapitate or crush the skull of a living unborn child or to incidentally cause serious bodily injury to the mother due to a resulting skull fragment; medical treatment could be used to save the life of the mother if the death of the child is incidental to the treatment.”
This ban is necessary to effectively prevent any doctors from cutting off the heads and crushing the skulls of unborn children. This legislation would generally effect later-term abortions. To be found guilty, the abortionist has to knowingly grasp the skull of the unborn child and cut it off or crush it.
North Dakota’s one abortion clinic does abortions up through 15 weeks. I do not think the baby is big enough at that point for a physician to knowingly grasp and crush the skull or cut off the head. But ND’s hospitals and abortion clinic are permitted to do abortions at any stage of pregnancy. Any abortionist could come into the state, open a clinic, and start doing that.
Dr. Leroy Carhart is an abortion doctor in nearby Nebraska. He is notorious for doing partial birth abortions. But what is not widely known is that he also cuts off the heads and crushes the skulls of unborn children. He and a number of other abortionists have discussed in great detail in federal court how they do this. For example, during Dr. Carhart’s lawsuit against the partial-birth abortion ban, when asked about what actions he takes that would be fatal to the child, Dr. William Fitzhugh said:
“Well, number one, I like to interrupt the umbilical cord. Number two…we break up parts in the uterus and we crush skulls.”
My goal is to ensure that this never happens in North Dakota like it is happening in other states.
Constitutionally speaking, could decapitation and skull crushing be prevented? Much depends on the “swing” Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy. In his opinion for the majority of the Court in Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124, 159-60 (2007), which upheld a ban on partial-birth abortions before as well as after viability, Justice Kennedy wrote:
“It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know: that she allowed a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of her unborn child, a child assuming the human form.”
Of the most common second-trimester abortion method, dilation and extraction (D &E), Kennedy wrote that:
“The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn limb from limb.” [Stenberg v. Carhart, 350 U.S. 914, 958-59 (Kennedy, J., dissenting).]
Kennedy has also stated:
“[T]he States have an important constitutional role in defining their interests in the abortion debate. It is only with this principle in mind that Nebraska’s interests can be given proper weight. . . . States ... have an interest in forbidding medical procedures which, in the State’s reasonable determination, might cause the medical profession or society as a whole to become insensitive, even disdainful, to life, including life in the human fetus. . . . A State may take measures to ensure the medical profession and its members are viewed as healers, sustained by a compassionate and rigorous ethic and cognizant of the dignity and value of human life, even life which cannot survive without the assistance of others.” [Id. at 962.] (Emphasis added).
It is hard to imagine that J. Kennedy would not prove sympathetic to a North Dakota decision to ban the decapitation and skull crushing of unborn children. More than a problem for the courts, what we are dealing with here is a moral/political problem. Let me propose that if we acted in the same fashion against the decapitation and skull crushing of unborn children as we would respond if the same crimes were legalized for adults, then such crimes and every other crime against unborn children would be quickly and permanently prohibited.
It is unconscionable and unthinkable that any “doctor” who claims to care for the health of others would remove the heads of children or crush them and toss them in the trash. This is not something that much of the media feels it needs to report, because they know that people would think it is too awful to be true. What is perhaps most surprising is that abortion doctors are willing to testify to it without remorse. It says a lot about how far we have sunk as a nation that we would need to pass a law banning the decapitation and skull crushing of babies waiting to be born. The barbarians of old were not even as savage as some abortion ‘doctors.’
It is supremely ironic that we accuse Islamic governments of savagely decapitating their own people, yet they accuse Western governments of savagely decapitating their own children. This inhumane killing of the most helpless and innocent among us must stop now. None of it is justified.
Pro-abortion groups are ridiculously beholden to this legal ability to kill other people. This support for slaughter in the name of “compassion” for the “troubled mother” is insanity! It has gotten so bad that as Jill Stanek reported, there was a Texas bill that actually made it out of committee that would have almost entirely decriminalized killing a baby up to 1 year after birth. Why is adoption not an option? Why is it not always the first impulse based on the sacredness of innocent life?
‘The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban’ certainly makes people aware of what is happening. I was not even aware until last year while lobbying for other pro-life legislation. I knew that abortion doctors cut off arms and legs, but I did not know they cut off heads and crush skulls as well. I see this legislation as an incremental way to provide protection for unborn children. Especially for a ballot measure, I wanted something substantial and easy to understand. It is because it is so easy to understand that it comes off as grotesque. It should pass easily on Election Day.
On a final note, during a federal district court case out of New York on March 31, 2004, abortionist Timothy Johnson testified:
“When one does a D&E [abortion], technically one of the challenges is to remove the fetal skull, partly because it is relatively large, partly because it is relatively calcified, and it is difficult to grasp on occasion. So one of the common technical challenges of a dismemberment D&E is what is called a free-floating head or a head that has become disattached and needs to be removed. This can lead to more passages of instruments through the cervix. And technically it is difficult to grasp the head; it is round, it slips out of the instruments that we generally use. Either those instruments or the head can be extruded outside the uterus and cause perforation [tearing of the uterus].”
You can download petitions from the Stop Decapitation website at:
Feel free to call us if you want to help collect petitions or make a donation. Let me know especially if you can commit to collecting at least 5 petitions per day until August 1. Each petition has 25 lines. My hope is that you can at least collect that many. After you are finished, take the petitions to any bank, courthouse, or most businesses, and ask for a Notary so they can be notarized. Then mail your completed petitions to:
Stop Decapitation Network
PO Box 845
Dickinson, ND 58602
A few pieces of advice: 1) The ND Secretary of State will not accept any petitions until Stop Decapitation Network has collected 12,844 petitions. 2) When circulating, you can simply ask people if they want to sign a “pro-life petition”. 3) Sign somebody else’s petition. 4) Be sure that the full street address, full name of city, and zip are written, and 5) The deadline for the Nov. 2010 ballot is Aug. 4, 2010.
Daniel Woodard sponsored The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban. He lobbied for pro-life legislation last year, graduated with a degree in Politics from Ave Maria University, and resides in Dickinson, ND. He is currently collecting petitions for the November 2010 ballot.
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