Adam Smith: “this evening the House will be voting on the partial birth abortion ban legislation. As a nation, we have created a veil…”

“this evening the House will be voting on the partial birth abortion ban legislation. As a nation, we have created a veil of silence when it comes to the reality of abortion procedures. It is easy to be pro-choice when one can claim ignorance about the ways and means of abortion: whether it is a saline abortion, dilation and extraction, or suction, just to name a few. Tonight, we are talking about a particular procedure commonly referred to as the ``partial birth abortion.'' The very use of the word ``birth'' should be a clue as to how this procedure is performed. By inducing a ``breech'' birth, and I would like to note that I was a ``breech'' baby, a doctor is able to deliver a baby feet first and while the child's head is still in the birth canal, insert surgical scissors into the base of the baby's skull and remove the brain tissue, thus collapsing the skull and then finishing the delivery of a now dead baby. We are tantalizing a young life as it enters the world, only to collapse its skull and end its life. I used to be pro-choice, but I am confident that I would have changed my views years earlier had I been aware of the truly horrid nature of abortion. Had I known that this procedure was being performed, my decision to choose life would have been that much simpler. As a mother and grandmother, it is mind boggling to imagine having labor induced, to be giving birth, only to have the opportunity to be a mother stopped in midstream.”