Dan Coats: “I am pleased that they are willing to revisit the issue. It is an issue that I think deserve revisiting. I want to…”

“I am pleased that they are willing to revisit the issue. It is an issue that I think deserve revisiting. I want to correct some information that might be misconstrued, as referenced by the Senator from California--the fact that, if we could just make sure that we provided an exception for women whose lives were in danger, were the procedure not proposed. As I think the Senator remembers, that was clearly addressed in the bill that was before the Senate last Congress--that exception for life of the mother was clearly stated in that language. Now this whole addition of the well health of the mother--first of all, as the Senator from Pennsylvania so eloquently described, there were no instances, there were no partial-birth abortions performed to protect the health of the mother. There was a lot of erroneous misinformation discussed about that.”