[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2936]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ENDORSES PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, the American Medical Association struck a 
blow for innocent human life yesterday when it endorsed legislation to 
outlaw the heinous practice of partial-birth abortions. Now the major 
obstacles in the way of a ban on this horrific procedure are President 
Clinton and the leaders of the most radical pro-abortion lobbies.
  Let us hope that the American Medical Association's statement that we 
must restrict a procedure that, and I quote, ``We all agree is not good 
medicine,'' will get the attention of the last remaining diehard on the 
wrong side of this issue. A partial-birth abortion is literally the 
killing in a most brutal fashion of a baby about to take its first 
breath of life outside the womb. It is a grotesque and inhuman 
practice. In a civilized society, it has absolutely no place.
  Mr. Speaker, the Cincinnati Enquirer, my hometown's newspaper, in a 
hard-hitting editorial this morning, summed it up best. Again, I quote. 
They said, ``It is time to declare that our society will no longer 
tolerate infanticide as a choice.''
  Let us ban this horrible procedure once and for all.

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