Tom Coburn: “I want to talk about Mike and Nancy Johnson from Muscogee, OK. I have delivered five babies for them. One of their…”

“I want to talk about Mike and Nancy Johnson from Muscogee, OK. I have delivered five babies for them. One of their babies had a tremendous anencephalic complicated cystic structure on its brain. Now, this procedure that is supposedly so important that it has to be there for the life and health of a woman could have been used on her. But I want to tell my colleagues what they chose to do. They chose to deliver that baby. And in the delivery room, as that baby was born, I placed it in the hands of the father, and over the next 2 hours that baby was comforted in its death. I want to contrast that with the idea of a child dying in its father's arms, with the idea of a physician ramming a hole in the back of a skull and sucking the brains out of a child. Tell me, my colleagues, which way is the right way to do it?”