Barbara Boxer: “Then I want to tell a story. My colleagues have an artist's rendering, but I want to show a photograph of a woman named…”

“Then I want to tell a story. My colleagues have an artist's rendering, but I want to show a photograph of a woman named Coreen Costello. I want my colleagues to listen to this because it is not a made-up picture. It is a real picture of a real family and a real woman. Why don't my colleagues listen to it because I think this is what we are supposed to be about, real people facing real problems and what we are about to do by passing radical legislation, which is unconstitutional on its face. It did not even go to the committee. I say to my friends, it did not even go to the Judiciary Committee, although the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional. The least they could have done was bring it back to the committee and look at what the Court said, that the definition was broad, it was vague, it could ban more than one procedure and that it had no exception for the health of a woman. Listen to the story of Coreen Costello. She says: I am writing to you on behalf of my family. I have testified before both the Senate and the House concerning the so-called partial-birth abortion ban. I have personal experience with this issue for at 30 weeks pregnant I had a procedure that would be banned by this legislation. When I was 7 months pregnant, an ultrasound revealed that our third child, a darling baby girl, was dying. She had a lethal neurological disorder and had been unable to move any part of her tiny body for almost 2 months.…”