On the recordMarch 10, 2003
We are Senators. We are not doctors. With all due respect to my friend from Pennsylvania, if my daughter were in trouble with pregnancy, I wouldn't go to him. I would go to her OB-GYN. And I would say, Tell us what do we have to do to make sure this birth goes well, and tell us what we have to do to make sure our daughter's life will not end and that her health will not be impaired forever. This bill, S. 3, is called the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. It should be called the following: The 'Criminalizing Medically Necessary Procedures Act,' because the procedures that are banned are necessary to save the life and the health of a woman facing a medical emergency during a pregnancy.
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