Dan Coats: “I just want to inform the Senator from California and our colleagues that what I stated was that on the basis of letters…”

“I just want to inform the Senator from California and our colleagues that what I stated was that on the basis of letters that we have received from a number of trained physicians in obstetrics and gynecology that the similarities between the procedure which they are trained for, which is a D&C procedure, and the procedures for performing an abortion are essentially the same and, therefore, they have the expertise necessary, as learned in those training procedures, should the occasion occur and an emergency occur to perform that abortion. But to compare that with not having training for a bypass operation or kidney operation or anything else would not be an accurate comparison. There are enough similarities between the procedure they are trained for and the procedure the Senator from California is advocating they need to be trained for that is not a problem.”