Not what we go for, to ensure babies born alive in such instances are given necessary medical care to house passed hr 3504, the born alive some abortion survivors protection act which requires baby surviving an abortion be given the same treatment and care that would be given to any child naturally born premature at the same age and impose criminal penalties at the federal level to prevent the killing of innocents human babies born alive. Moreover, these videos indicate abortion practitioners may have adopted new abortion procedures to avoid the risk of violating a partialbirth abortion ban act. In the 1st video the senior director of medical services at planned Parenthood Federation of america stated that, quote the federal abortion ban is a law, and laws are up to interpretation,. Todays hearing is intended to explore what interpretations have arisen since the laws passage. I look forward to listening to our witnesses here today, and it is my pleasure to recognize the Ranking Member
People have been physically harmed. I have a friend who lost a daughter on the table of an abortioness. There are ramifications and it does hurt women. Doctor, the 2009 National Abortion federation textbook on comprehensive abortion care states that some patients or clinicians prefer initiating the abortion procedure with a nonliving fetus for emotional reasons or to avoid the problem of a ran ttransiently living ne. What in plain english are they referring to in this sanitized statement . They are referring to turn your microphone on. I have to remember that microphone. They are referring to bringing about a fetal death prior to initiating the procedure. You can do that a couple of ways. One is through the use of what was on that video. And another is through use of potassium chloride. Potassium chloride is a more dangerous drug and it is much more difficult to administer effectively to cause fetal death. By inject iin ining gigoxin, yo cause a fetal death and that obviates the proble
Parenthood provides. I thank you for your testimony and i thank the chairman for their time. There are six minutes remaining in this vote, so the committee will stand in recess and reconvene immediately after the votes. The House Judiciary Committee is taking a break now. The committee looking at the operations of planned parenthood today. And as the hearing today chairman Bob Goodlatte and congressman john conyers paid tribute to congressman edwards who n california who has died. While recess is in place, well show their opening statements. They include, of course, comments about planned parenthood. Good afternoon. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on planned parenthood exposed, examining abortion procedures and medical iktings at the nations largest Abortion Provider. And ill begin with my openings statement. Before i go to the statement on that id like to take a moment to remember the life of former congressman William Donelan don edwards who passed away this month at the
Abortion procedures and medical ethics in the nations largest Abortion Provider and i will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Before i go to the statement on bad i would like to take a moment to remember the life of former congressman William John Edwards who passed away this month at the age of 100. Don edwards was first elected into congress in 1963 where he had a distinguished career working on the Voting Rights act , the Civil Rights Act and served on the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of the watergate scandal. During this time don edwards served the former congressman Caldwell Butler who i worked for at the time. When don edwards left office in 1995 after 32 years of congressional service, he was succeeded by our own zoe lofgren and her 15 district that i rate i had the opportunity to serve for two years with congressman edwards myself and appreciate his service. Its now my pleasure to ask a member to share a few words about our former collea
In the interpretation of law. Mr. William jz palts rely on [inaudible] of 2008. Casehe is also citing a 4th circuit case, but the Plan Department distinguish that cosbecause it is a [inaudible] and not categorical exemption. I wonder why you think in some ways the law that mr. Williams is citing is distinshuishable from the facts of this fire house im here to advice the board on the Legal Standard of review. I havent looked at the ken berryit is not a court case, it is a Regional Water Quality Control board decision that is not binding precedent for this bod and not legal precedent. It wont provided to me before i walked into this hearing so i dont feel i can common on that, but qu talk about the case law on isissue. The shourt version is there no direct case law on point on isissue. There are a couple cases that touch around the issue around the edges, but neither is on point. One is the parker decision that i believe it is parker shaddock neighborhood b berkeley city counsel. But tha