The little
girl Barbara Boxer tried to hide By Jane Chastain
March
13, 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Republican
senators, seeking to pass a bill that will ban a practice
that
involves the killing of a child in the very act of birth, received
some
unexpected help from a perky 11-year-old, who once was a target of
this
brutal procedure.
Donna
Joy Watts, accompanied by her parents, Donald and Lori Watts,
made
a return trip to Capitol Hill this week to urge the Senate to pass the
Partial-Birth
Abortion Ban Act, S.3, which was introduced by their
senator,
Rick Santorum, R-Pa.
Six
years ago, during a debate on a similar measure, the Wattses and
their
daughter were unceremoniously ushered out of the Senate gallery at the
insistence
of Barbara Boxer, who is the proud defender of this
horrific
practice. The excuse given was that Donna Joy was only 5 years of
age,
and the rules say you need to be 6-years-old to sit in on these debates.
What
really had the "Queen of Infanticide" in such a dither?
The
very presence of this beautiful child with sparkling eyes and
shoulder-length
brown curls that encircle her angelic face, undercuts
Boxer's
argument that this procedure is entirely elective and
necessary
to save the life of a mother carrying a doomed fetus - a medical term
Boxer
likes to throw around to make a child in the womb, or one in the
process
of being born, seem nonhuman.
When
Lori was pregnant with Donna Joy, doctors and the Wattses'
Insurance
carrier tried to bully her into having a partial-birth abortion after
a
sonogram revealed that parts of Donna Joy's brain were missing.
Another
part was outside the skull, the brain stem was deformed and she had severe
hydrocephalus.
The Wattses were told that their child had "no chance"
for
survival and this procedure was "necessary" to protect Lori's health
because
their baby's head was so enlarged.
Lori,
now a practical nurse, knew this didn't ring true. How could
killing
a helpless baby, delivered feet first with only the head remaining in
the
birth canal, help a mother? If a vaginal delivery was impractical,
why
not deliver this child by Caesarean section? After all, one of Lori's
older
children had been delivered in this manner.
Soon,
Lori and Donald would understand their motive. It was cheaper
for
the insurance company and it guaranteed a dead baby - not one who would
require
surgery and expensive medical care.
The
Wattses were told that if their child survived, she would be a
burden
- a heartache and sorrow. "Not so!" was the reply from these defiant
parents.
"She will be nothing but a joy," Lori assured her doctors.
Lori
and Donald were willing to accept a disabled child, but they
were
not willing to be part of her brutal demise in this dreadful manner.
They
fought the system. They offered the hospital a choice: It could
plan
for the safe delivery of their child or Lori would show up in labor
in
the emergency room. If the hospital boggled the delivery, they could sue.
Lori
doesn't want other women pressured into signing their children's
execution
orders. So much for a woman's choice!
That's
why Lori was willing to pack up her family and head to
Washington
in order to call on senators who are on the fence on this bill. Lori
knows
it is urgently needed.
The
American Medical Association seems to agree with her. The AMA
says,
"There is no identified situation where intact dilation and
extraction
- that's the sanitized medical term manufactured for this inhumane form
of
killing - is the 'only appropriate procedure' to induce abortion."
Furthermore,
this blind procedure is extremely dangerous to the mother.
Donna
Joy's life has not been easy, but she took her eight operations
in
stride. Today, this little girl - who had so much to overcome and was
Not
supposed to be able to walk or talk - now runs and has an impressive
vocabulary.
In fact, Donna Joy's ambition has no limits. She says
that
she wants to become a pilot, a TV star and a senator when she is an adult.
She's
well on her way.
If
you watched the debate on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act on C – SPAN
this
week, you may have seen Donna Joy in the Senate gallery. She was
sitting
there proudly as a reminder to all those in attendance that
every
child deserves a fighting chance and every mother deserves the best
possible
care.
Funny
thing . as Donna Joy grows, Barbara Boxer's arguments shrink.
They
were pretty thin right from the start.
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