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 Lee
Yancey for State Senate, District 20
E-News Volume I
April 1, 2007
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Lee
Yancey for State Senate, District 20
 Dear
Friends,
We are one
step closer to ending the tragedy of abortion in our country. The
Supreme Court in Washington D.C. has upheld the ban on
partial-birth abortions. While Mississippi has had this law in
place since 1997, other states were doing partial-birth
abortions.
The first bill I
file as your state senator will be to ban abortion in Mississippi
immediately.
I am enclosing the
full press release below:
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN
This past Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision
upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Justice Anthony
Kennedy, writing for the majority, stated that the federal law was
not "void for vagueness," nor did it "impose[] an
undue burden on a woman's right to abortion based on its
overbreadth or lack of a health exception." The Partial-Birth
Abortion Ban Act of 2003, in part, prohibits "knowingly
perform[ing] a partial-birth abortion . . . that is [not]
necessary to save the life of a mother." Notably, the Act
does not regulate abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy,
which accounts for 85 and 90 percent of the approximately 1.3
million abortions performed each year in the United
States. Rather, the act only prohibits a specific method of
partial birth abortion, identified as "intact dilation and
evacuation," in which a doctor extracts the fetus intact,
allows the head to pass through the cervix, and then pierces or
crushes the skull.
Justice Ginsburg's dissent found the
majority's opinion "alarming" in its disregard for prior
decisions concerning abortion. Ginsburg added that the majority's
opinion "cannot be understood as anything other than an
effort to chip away a right declared again and again by this
court, and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to
women's lives."
Source: Supreme
Court of the United States, April 18, 2007.
Full Opinion: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/05-380.pdf
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 Lee
Yancey was awarded "Pro-Lifer of the Year" in
2006 by Pro-Life Mississippi in recognition of his lobbying
efforts at the Mississippi legislature to have more than 20
pro-life bills passed since the 2001 legislative session. Lee is
also the immediate past president of the Choose Life Car Tag
Committee that has distributed more than a million dollars to
crisis pregnancy centers. Lee is also helping lead the Memorial to
the Missing campaign. The Mississippi Baptist Convention is
collecting 50 million pennies to remember the 50 million babies
lost to abortion in 1973. The money will go for pro-life causes.
You can see the Memorial to the Missing on the corner of President
Street and Mississippi Street in downtown Jackson (across from the
capitol). Many people are pro-life, but Lee Yancey is doing
something about it!
Elect Lee Yancey as your state senator on August 7 and let's
end abortion sooner rather than later.
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