George Voinovich: “The question I would ask, again, is that those of us who have had a concern about this for many, many years have studied…”

“The question I would ask, again, is that those of us who have had a concern about this for many, many years have studied the language quite carefully. I particularly have because of the fact that we had two partial-birth abortion statutes that passed in Ohio, and we were looking at what the Supreme Court was going to do with the Nebraska case. I must say to you we have looked at it as carefully as we can. We believe the language that is in the bill is not vague. We believe it will stand up to a test in the Supreme Court, and that to go back to the Judiciary Committee, quite frankly, would just delay the real issue; that is, whether we have enough votes on the floor of the Senate to ban partial-birth abortions.”