Lynn C. Woolsey: “this veto override is a cruel attempt to make a political point. Make no mistake about it, this debate, with all the…”

“this veto override is a cruel attempt to make a political point. Make no mistake about it, this debate, with all the emotional rhetoric and exaggerated testimony on the other side of the aisle, is a frontal attack on Roe versus Wade, plain and simple. The Gingrich majority wants to do away with Roe, the radical right wants to do away with Roe, and H.R. 1833 is the first step. So let us be honest about what this veto override is really about. This bill, which the President courageously vetoed, will outlaw a medical procedure which is rarely used but sometimes required in extreme and tragic cases when the life or the future fertility of the mother is in danger or when a fetus is so malformed that it has no chance of survival. Like when the fetus has no brain or the fetus is missing organs. Or the spine has grown outside of the body. When the fetus has zero chance of life. When women are forced to carry a malformed fetus to term, there is danger of chronic hemorrhaging, danger of permanent infertility or death. Let me read a brief list of organizations that oppose H.R. 1833: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; the American Public Health Association; the American Nurses Association; the American Medical Women's Association. The list goes on and on. These medical professionals oppose this bill because they know that H.R. 1833 will cost women their lives or their reproductive health.”