W. Todd Akin: “And what we have on the other side of the argument, you have Dr. Myers and Dr. Bulich. They are authors of the textbook…”

“And what we have on the other side of the argument, you have Dr. Myers and Dr. Bulich. They are authors of the textbook ``Anesthesia for Fetal Intervention and Surgery.'' They are professors at Harvard Medical School. And what they are explaining is that as we do these different routine operations to little children, before they are born, what we are doing is we are administering anesthesia because we understand that they feel pain. This is common practice in the medical community. And I am really amazed that anybody would be opposed to the idea of simply giving a mother a choice, a choice as to whether to administer anesthesia to her child. I mean, I hear these people. They say they are pro-choice, and here is something that is choice, you can administer anesthesia; oh, no, we are against that. You might impose on giving them this opportunity to administer anesthesia. I can't understand why anybody could oppose it.”