John Conyers: “I say to Mr. Barcia, my dear colleague from Michigan, nobody, no doctor would have forced you to have the procedure that…”

“I say to Mr. Barcia, my dear colleague from Michigan, nobody, no doctor would have forced you to have the procedure that is being debated today. Nobody would have recommended it to you without allowing you and your wife to make the choice. So why not let everybody else have that same privilege--that same choice--that you had? Why is it that we as Members of Congress, have now become doctors, Mr. Canady? Who gave us the right, for the first time in American history, to determine what procedures doctors will employ? Where do you think that inures to you as a humble Member of Congress? What medical background do you bring to this debate that is greater than the knowledge of the members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists? By what right do you tell people they cannot have this often medically necessary procedure? If Mr. and Mrs. Barcia do not want to undergo the procedure, they don't have to do it. They can choose not to. Now, let me turn to Dr. Coburn from Oklahoma. Dr. Coburn from Oklahoma, I am not totally misinformed. I am seeking information. I do not have a violent position on this. The fact that I am not supporting you, but instead am supporting most of the doctors in your profession, does not make me totally misinformed. Nor does it make me totally pro-abortion. Let us be fair, doctor.”