Phil Gingrey: “I, as a physician, as an OB/GYN physician, do not know of any other procedures, late-term procedures that would result…”

“I, as a physician, as an OB/GYN physician, do not know of any other procedures, late-term procedures that would result in the death of a child at this stage of pregnancy, and we are talking about infants, that are well past the point of viability. We are talking about, in some instances, 4 rac{1}{2} ext{-}, 5-pound babies, that that pregnancy cannot be terminated, and resulting in a dead baby without doing a destructive procedure known as partial-birth abortion. It literally is the only option left for a woman who wants to choose death for her child in the third trimester. If you do a cesarean section, you have got the problem of delivering a live child. If you induce labor, you have the problem of having a live child, and that problem means that you cannot perform an abortion. This is what it is all about, and the gentleman from Texas on the other side spoke a few minutes ago about the dirty little secret, the dirty little secret of this not banning late-term abortion. It certainly does when we eliminate this abhorrent procedure known as partial-birth abortion.”