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Abortion | Erudite pro-lifer's long intellectual struggle results in President Bush's signature on a new law protecting the survivors of abortion | Marvin Olasky

The American-Statesman in President Bush's former capital city of Austin included this paragraph in a roundup of the Aug. 5 news: "BUSH SIGNS FETUS STATUS LAW. President Bush signed a bill that declares a fetus that survives an abortion procedure a person under federal law."

That description would be laughable if it were not so sad. Pro-life readers—or any readers with some sense of logic—would need great self-control to avoid seizing a Statesman copy editor or writer by the lapels and then crying out, "The creature protected by that newly signed Born Alive Infants Protection Act could not possibly be a fetus. The abortion procedure has expelled him from the womb. He is born. He's a person. What else could he be?"

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August 17, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 31

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