LETTERS: BAN ALL PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS

To the editor:

I am a 17-year-old senior at Scott City High School. I think abortions are morally wrong. But they are acceptable in certain occasions, such as the mother's life being threatened. There's no way anyone should be able to get a partial-birth abortion though.

Defenders of partial-birth abortion have argued that anesthesia administered to the mother during the procedure kills the child. Several leading experts in anesthesiology, who will testify in court, all agree that it is the procedure that terminates the infant, not the anesthesia. No medical experts will support the claim that the anesthesia kills the child.

Personally, I think the procedure extinguishes the baby. If the anesthesia does the jog, then there would be no point in vacuuming the brain out and collapsing the skull.

Partial-birth abortions should be banned everywhere, and anyone who performs these procedures should have his or her license taken away.

JOSH DANNENMUELLER

Scott City