Barbara Cubin: “I have listened to the entire debate today and I cannot help but think of a television program I was watching about…”

“I have listened to the entire debate today and I cannot help but think of a television program I was watching about crime the other day about pickpockets and purse snatchers. There are groups of people that create a diversion so that someone else can go up and commit the evil deed, but the diversion takes place, and this debate today reminds me of that. Being accused of trying to eliminate a brutal, violent, inhumane act for political purposes for, or questions of constitutionality simply reminds me of pickpockets because the diversion just does not cut it. According to Ron Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, and some other medical sources, it appears that partial birth abortions are performed 3,000 to 5,000 times annually. Even those numbers could be low. Based on published interviews with numerous abortionists and interviews with Mr. Fitzsimmons in 1997, the 'vast majority' of partial birth abortions are performed in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy on healthy babies of healthy mothers.”