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When abortion was illegal in America, many women died or suffered serious medical problems from either self-induced or illegal, back-alley abortions. Women streamed into emergency rooms with punctured wombs, massive bleeding, and rampant infections.      Thanks to the Roe v. Wade (1973) Supreme Court decision, women today have access to safe abortions by medically trained professionals under sanitary conditions. But anti-abortionists so-called pro-lifers want to change all this. They are succeeding.      If this Partial-Birth Abortion Act becomes …

…abortion is murder at any stage of the pregnancy (which explains why some pro-lifers feel morally sanctioned to kill doctors and bomb abortion clinics).      The anti-abortionists' war against partial-birth abortions is a smokescreen to ban all abortions. Abortion is a woman's moral right. To protect that right, pro-choicers and our Congressmen must reject compromise and fight the partial-birth ban on principl the principle of individual rights the principle upon which this pro-rights country was founded.