Charles T. Canady: “This is a vote about common decency. This is a procedure that is gruesome, it is inhuman, and it is unnecessary. The…”

“This is a vote about common decency. This is a procedure that is gruesome, it is inhuman, and it is unnecessary. The President has turned his back on millions of Americans who are sickened by this procedure. In New Jersey alone 1,500 babies were killed with this procedure and are killed every year. We do not like to hear the details about this procedure. We do not like to talk about such things in public or in private. But, Madam Speaker, we must talk about them. The implications that we face if we do not are too far-reaching. The media rarely describes partial-birth abortion. They and some of my colleagues here today will politely call it a certain late-term procedure. Well, I submit to my colleagues that there is nothing polite about this procedure. Certainly the aborted baby, whose life is snuffed out in such a violent way, does not think that this is a polite procedure. Madam Speaker, human life is precious.”