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On the recordMay 15, 1997
I want to clarify a point. Dr. Haskell, who developed this procedure, testified that the drawings were accurate, and I am quoting him, ``from a technical point of view.'' So these drawings are not cartoons. They are accurate drawings of a procedure that Dr. Haskell has invented. The point I am trying to make, and I think she answered the question, and I think she answered it correctly, and that is if the child was delivered, completely delivered, you would not be able to kill the child. The point I am trying to make, look how close we are drawing this line, a matter of a few inches of a baby's skull. Those 3 inches determine whether you can live or die. Is that really what we want in our society? Is that really the standard that we want to develop as to when life is worth living, or life should or should not be protected?
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of a medical procedure related to late-term abortion.

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