SBC’s Land comments on Supreme Court’s upholding of partial birth abortion ban

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April 17, 2007
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.?Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in Nashville, Tenn., released a statement April 18 on the Supreme Court’s upholding of a federal ban on partial birth abortion.

Land commented: “The 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the ban on the barbarous and grotesque procedure known as partial birth abortion means the procedure is now mercifully against the law in the United States of America. The procedure involves a partially born baby, most often viable or full-term, being delivered except for its head and then being killed through the insertion of a surgical instrument into the partially born infant’s brain.

“This decision is a powerful and timely reminder of the enormous significance of presidential elections and their pivotal impact on the makeup of the Supreme Court.

“If Al Gore or John Kerry, rather than President George W. Bush, had made the nominations to replace the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, then this monstrous partial birth abortion procedure would have likely been upheld by the highest court as constitutional in the land in a 6-3 vote, rather than being struck down 5-4. It would have been a decade or more before there would have been an opportunity to change the balance of the court in favor of this monumental step for justice for our partially born and unborn citizens.

“Thank God for President Bush, and thank God for Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito.”