[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23924]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, I came here with a prepared 
text, but I just could not resist this smiling face. Through the 
miracle of modern technology, this is the picture of a baby in the 
womb. It is clearly a baby. It is clearly smiling. It is clearly a 
human being.
  I did not bring with me some other visuals that would show you what 
is going to happen to Sarah in the partial-birth abortion procedure. 
She is going to be turned around in her mother's womb, and she is going 
to be delivered feet first. Not quite delivered. Her head is going to 
be left in the birth canal and then a trocar is going to be stuck in 
the back of her head, just where the spinal cord enters the brain. And 
then her soft brain tissue is going to be sucked out. Obviously, her 
life expired. This is partial-birth abortion. We are going to ban this 
hideous procedure today.

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