Charles T. Canady: “on April 15 this year President Bill Clinton vetoed H.R. 1833, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. As a result, the…”

“on April 15 this year President Bill Clinton vetoed H.R. 1833, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. As a result, the President is the one person standing in the way of Congress saving thousands of children from being partially delivered and then killed with an abortion procedure that has shocked the conscience of the American people. The drawings here describe the procedure called partial-birth abortion. These drawings describe this horrible procedure step by step. Mr. Speaker, in the partial-birth abortion procedure, the physician or the abortionist begins in this way. Guided by ultrasound, he grabs the live baby's leg with forceps. Then the abortionist pulls the baby's leg out into the birth canal. The abortionist delivers the living baby's entire body except for the head, which is deliberately kept lodged just within the uterus, as is depicted in this drawing. Then the abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are opened to enlarge the hole. This is the step in this procedure which kills a living human child. Next, in completing this horrible procedure, the abortionist removes the scissors and inserts a suction catheter into the baby's skull. The child's brains are removed, causing the skull to collapse, and the delivery of a dead child is completed. This tells the truth about partial-birth abortion. This is the truth that the proponents of partial-birth abortion have tried to conceal from the very day that the debate over this bill began.”