Barbara Boxer: “When a bill comes before the Senate that bans a medical procedure that many women have stated saved their lives…”

“When a bill comes before the Senate that bans a medical procedure that many women have stated saved their lives, preserved their fertility, stopped them from having a severe health impact, I think it is important to turn to the people who know the most about this, and that is the OB/GYNs who choose, as their way of life, delivering children, who get their satisfaction in their work by staying close to a pregnant woman and seeing her through a pregnancy. Let me tell my colleagues what the OB/GYNs say: Partial-birth abortion does not exist. They are not the only ones who say that. The fact is the Supreme Court said that. They said the bill is so vague; it made up a term, 'partial-birth abortion.' There is no such thing as partial-birth abortion, a very emotional term. But what we are talking about is a procedure that is used in a situation where any other procedure might cause grave harm to the woman. Now, the AMA does not support S. 3.”