John Conyers: “First of all, let us begin the discussion by recognizing that the term ``partial-birth abortion'' is a political term or…”

“First of all, let us begin the discussion by recognizing that the term ``partial-birth abortion'' is a political term or a rhetorical term. It is not found in the medical journals. It is not found in the textbooks on medicine. The reason is that it was invented in the Congress. Okay? The bill before us is different from other bills that have attempted to ban abortion because this bill has now determined that they would get around the Supreme Court ban on these procedures which require the health of the mother be taken into consideration by saying, we have a bill here that has about 14 pages of findings, congressional findings, that now make it unnecessary to follow Roe v. Wade and the other major case that precludes these bills from being constitutional. They have been struck down repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly. But this bill is now going to be okay because we have congressional findings. Flash to the Congress. All congressional findings are not approved by the Supreme Court. Sorry about that, gentlemen.”