Sam Brownback: “this is an historic day. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, we are going to deal with the issue of abortion and limit…”

“this is an historic day. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, we are going to deal with the issue of abortion and limit the practice in one significant way. This is an historic day for life; for establishing and supporting a culture of life in the United States; for freedom; and for human rights--for the dignity of the weakest and most vulnerable amongst us, which we all profess to support. This is will go down in history as a pivotal day, where we start to recognize that the child in the womb is a child. The child in the womb is not a piece of property. The child is, indeed, a person with dignity and rights and is entitled to life. That is a very important thing for us to recognize and for the United States to support. I will begin my comments by showing a picture of a very young child. Thanks to modern technology, we are able to see a lot more these days. We now have what is called 4D, four dimensional, CAT scans of children in the womb. We can see children smiling and yawning in the womb at a very young age. I recently had a gentleman in my office--we actually had him testify in front of the Commerce Committee--who performs surgeries on children in the womb--in utero surgeries. This gentleman works on children in the womb a great deal, and in doing these surgeries, for example, he says a child in the womb acts just like a child outside the womb. One has to go into the womb, when they are performing the surgery, to anesthetize the child.”