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National | President Clinton has yet to meet an abortion he'd oppose | Cal Thomas

President Clinton has flipped on countless issues, but on one he has been uncompromising. While pretending to wrestle with the "difficult" issue of abortion and even telling Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch that he has "prayed about it," the president gives the abortion lobby exactly what it wants every time: abortion on demand for any reason.

A bill passed by the Senate and House would have restricted a rare form of abortion that proponents call "partial birth." It is a late-term abortion in which the baby is extracted from the womb feet first, scissors are forced into the back of the skull, a suction catheter is inserted, and the baby's brains are sucked out. It is not a pretty picture, which is why opponents of the measure objected to drawings of the procedure being displayed on the House floor for C-SPAN viewers to see. Pro-choicers prefer that abortions be shrouded in euphemisms and morally obtuse medical terminology and kept behind closed doors to spare the conscience and the soul.