Phil Gingrey: “What we are hearing from the opposition over and over again is that this is an attack on Roe v. Wade. It is not an…”

“What we are hearing from the opposition over and over again is that this is an attack on Roe v. Wade. It is not an attack on Roe. I will stand here and tell the Members that I think that January 22, 1973, will live on as a day in infamy, and I wish it had never happened, but this is not an attack on Roe v. Wade. This is an attack on one procedure, one abhorrent procedure called partial-birth abortion. The other side wants to say that there is no medical terminology of 'partial-birth abortion.' It is as much a medical terminology as to say taking somebody's appendix out or a gallbladder out is medical terminology. I do not know what euphemism they want to use for this procedure, but this is a partial-birth abortion. Someone said earlier that it is akin to infanticide. I am not a legal scholar, but to me it is infanticide because when one delivers that human outside the mother's womb, and it has a beating heart, it no longer is a fetus. It is an infant, and if they kill it at that point, and that is what partial-birth abortion is, then that is infanticide.”