[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11354]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN

  (Mr. RYUN of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYUN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to strongly urge my 
colleagues to support H.R. 4965, the partial-birth abortion ban. Since 
1995, a ban on this horrendous procedure has been passed three times by 
both the House and the Senate. Unfortunately, due to vetoes by 
President Clinton, the practice continues today. In the partial-birth 
abortion procedure, the baby is partially delivered before being 
brutally killed. The vast majority of partial-birth abortions are 
performed on healthy babies and healthy mothers. In fact, according to 
the American Medical Association, a partial-birth abortion is never 
necessary to protect the health of a woman and can even lead to 
additional serious health risks.
  Although language banning this procedure has been struck down in the 
past by the Supreme Court, this new legislation has been tailored to 
address the Court's concerns.
  Partial-birth abortion is infanticide. It is crucial that we act on 
the wishes of the American people and outlaw this dangerous and 
gruesome procedure once and for all.

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