[Torie]

You need to address the suction allegation. Is that now a no longer an available tool per this Bill or not? What is your opinion, putting aside that you did indeed score a oint that the Bill addresses both halves of the body of the fetus provided enough of either half is out?

[alnick]

You need to address the suction allegation. Is that now a no longer an available tool per this Bill or not?

From what I can see, the word "suction" is not used, but the act does refer to "removing the baby's brains."

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(1) A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion--an abortion in which a physician deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living, unborn child's body until either the entire baby's head is outside the body of the mother, or any part of the baby's trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother and only the head remains inside the womb, for the purpose of performing an overt act (usually the puncturing of the back of the child's skull and removing the baby's brains) that the person knows will kill the partially delivered infant, performs this act, and then completes delivery of the dead infant--is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited.