Duncan Faircloth: “It saddens me that we are here again debating partial-birth abortion. I feel inadequate at this point after hearing Dr.…”

“It saddens me that we are here again debating partial-birth abortion. I feel inadequate at this point after hearing Dr. Frist give a thorough, methodical, and definitive reason why it is such a cruel and brutal procedure that it never even should be considered. How anybody could vote to sustain a veto after hearing Dr. Frist, Senator Frist, explain the brutality and the fringe element that is doing this procedure is more than I can imagine. There are 125 medical centers and schools in this Nation, and not one of them teaches the procedure as a method of medicine. It is totally a fringe element, as he well says. I feel so inadequate here following him, who is an authority, and spent his life in medicine, and understands the medical reasons why we should not be doing it. But the very idea of just taking a pair of scissors and driving them into the skull of a child that is practically ready to be born, to me is horrible beyond anything we can think of--the pain to the child, and the danger to the mother. It is absolutely incomprehensible to me how anyone could vote to continue this procedure.”