FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THE NEW YORK TIMES SAW "FIT TO PRINT".(reprinted NY Times article about abortion, with commentary and analysis)

The procedure at issue--what doctors now call intact dilatation and extraction, or intact D&X--involves pulling the fetus's legs and torso out of the uterus and then crushing its skull before removing it entirely. ?

In 2000, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, surveyed abortion providers nationwide and estimated that 2,200 such [partial-birth abortion] procedures were done that year, by 31 physicians. ?

One aspect of the debate has changed. When it began, some opponents of the ban [on partial-birth abortions] said the targeted form of abortion was used only when a fetus had extreme abnormalities or a mother's health was endangered by pregnancy. [In other words, the pro-abortionists had been lying.] Now, both sides acknowledge that abortions done late in the second trimester, no matter how they are conducted, are most often performed to end healthy pregnancies because the woman arrived relatively late at her decision to abort. [One side, the pro-lifers, has nothing to "acknowledge now." We told the truth from the very beginning. A correct statement would be: "Now, some opponents of the partial-birth abortion ban admit that?"] ?

A Guttmacher study from 1987 [!] indicates that only 2 percent of abortions done after 16 weeks of pregnancy are done because of fetal abnormalities. [In other words, the truth about that was out years before our campaign to ban partial-birth abortions.]

A vast majority of second-trimester abortions are done using a technique called dilatation and evacuation, or D&E, in which the cervix is dilated, the fetal sac is punctured and drained, and the fetus's head is crushed. Then the body is dismembered and removed. ?

Dr. [Warren] Hern [of Boulder, Colorado] kills the fetus with an injection of the heart drug digoxin a few days ahead of [inducing labor resulting in expulsion of the dead child]. ?

Dr. George R. Tiller of Wichita, Kan., who uses a labor-and-delivery technique, injects the fetus with digoxin one to four days ahead of time. ?