On the recordJune 4, 2003
I want to make clear that they would not have been covered, because those women were dying of the infections caused by being forced to get back-alley abortions under unsterile circumstances. If they had been allowed to be in a hospital and get the legal treatments that are available under our law, they would not have gotten the infection and they would not have died. But this underlying bill denies them that right because its definition is so broad. It reaches way down to fairly early decisions to terminate. So I do not accept that those women's lives would be saved under the underlying bill. I also regret that one of my colleagues... maintained that there were no other techniques other than late-term abortions that could be used. There are other techniques that are just as harsh, they look just as bad on a poster, and the underlying bill does not ban them.
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