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What you are trying to do is take away the rights of women and their families and their doctors to have a procedure. Let’s try to be clear.īOXER: I am going to be clear when I get the floor. You had the same conversation with a colleague of mine, and I never saw such a twisting of his remarks. Once the baby is separated from the mother, you would agree - completely separated from the mother - you would agree that baby is entitled to constitutional protection?īOXER: I will tell you why I don’t want to engage in this. I ask the senator from California, again, you believe - you said “once the baby comes home.” Obviously, you don’t mean they have to take the baby out of the hospital for it to be protected by the Constitution. They do not support the criminal penalties provisions in this bill, but they still believe - I think you know that to be the case - this procedure is not medically necessary, and they stand by that statement. SANTORUM: If I may reclaim my time, first of all, the AMA still believes this is bad medicine. So my friend can ask me my philosophy all day on my own time I will talk about it. The obstetricians and gynecologists don’t support the bill. The American Nurses don’t support the bill.

The AMA will tell you they no longer support the bill. My friend from Pennsylvania says they are rogue doctors. My friend wants to tell the doctors in this country what to do. I think what my friend is doing, by asking me these questions, is off point. I know my colleague is engaging me in a colloquy on his time. But I am not willing to amend the Constitution to say that a fetus is a person, which I know you would. I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born - and there is no such thing as partial-birth - the baby belongs to your family and has the rights. SANTORUM: But I would like to ask you this question - you agree, once the child is born, separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed? Do you agree with that?īOXER: I would make this statement, that this Constitution as it currently is - some want to amend it to say life begins at conception. And I will address that when I get the floor. Wade decision, and what you are doing goes against it and will harm the women of this country. SANTORUM: Do you agree any child who is born has the right to life, is protected by the Constitution once that child is born?īOXER: I agree with the Roe v. Below is a transcript of the exchange from the Congressional Record: She eventually refused to answer any more of his questions.

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Santorum, who had control of the floor, started the exchange by asking Boxer a series of questions about abortion. Nearly immediately, the debate began making the rounds among pro-lifers, who said it showed the indefensibility of Boxer’s pro-choice position. Barbara Boxer of California engaged in a passionate exchange about partial-birth abortion on the Senate floor. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and pro-choice Sen. WASHINGTON (BP)–In October 1999, pro-life Sen.

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