"I am not answering these questions"

   - A Senate Exchange on Birth and Partial Birth

When the Senate considered the Partial-Birth Abortion Act on October 20, 1999, perhaps the most revealing part of the debate was the exchange between the chief sponsor of the bill, Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and the leading opponet, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Ca.).

Their discussion appears on pages S12878-80 of the October 20 Congressional Record. We have corrected minor errors in transcription and punctuation based on review of a videotape of the C-SPAN broadcast.

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