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On the recordMarch 12, 2003
I have heard that story, and I have personally met a woman from my State who faced a similar medical crisis, Vikki Stella, of Naperville, IL, a mother of two children who was pregnant with her third, anxiously awaiting the arrival of this little boy and learned very late in her pregnancy, much to her surprise, that her poor child was so deformed and abnormal that it could not survive outside the womb. The child was destined to die almost immediately after birth. Of course, some people would say at that point: Why not just finish the pregnancy? Why do you have to do anything? Her doctor said to her, unfortunately: You are not the healthiest person in the world even as a mother of two children. You have a diabetic condition, and you have the chance of complications. Therefore, her doctor recommended that she terminate that pregnancy, using the same procedure which would be outlawed, banned, prohibited by this legislation.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the personal impact of proposed legislation on abortion during a floor speech.

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