By Dave Andrusko

Every day I try to remind myself that every day new people come into the Movement who likely are unfamiliar with much of what has gone on in the fight for life. One of THE most famous exchanges of all time came in 1996 over the proposed ban on partial-birth abortions and was captured by C-SPAN for all time.

Pro-life Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) politely refused to be ignored. Too much was at stake--just how far were/are pro-abortionists willing to go protect the "right" to abortion. Does the right extend to outside the womb?

Pro-abortion Senator Russ Feingold politely refused to answer--until the very end. Here's the nub of the exchange:

Sen. Santorum: The Senator from Wisconsin says that this decision should be left up to the mother and the doctor, as if there is absolutely no limit that could be placed on what decision that they make with respect to that. And the Senator from California [Sen. Barbara Boxer] is going up to advise you of what my question is going to be, and I will ask it anyway. And my question is this: that if that baby were delivered breech style and everything was delivered except for the head, and for some reason that that baby's head would slip out -- that the baby was completely delivered -- would it then still be up to the doctor and the mother to decide whether to kill that baby?

Feingold danced around the question, so Santorum raised the same issue in a slightly different way.

Sen. Santorum: That doesn't answer the question. Let's assume that this procedure is being performed for the reason that you've stated, and the head is accidentally delivered. Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?

Sen. Feingold: I am not the person to be answering that question. That is a question that should be answered by a doctor, and by the woman who receives advice from the doctor. And neither I, nor is the Senator from Pennsylvania, truly competent to answer those questions. That is why we should not be making those decisions here on the floor of the Senate.

As Wisconsin RTL asks in a video that includes the exchange on the floor of the Senate, "Not competent to protect the life of a born live living human being?" Watch for yourself at http://www.wrtl.org/feingold.

After you do you will agree that Sen. Feingold's anti-life mentality does know no bounds.

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