Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II
After reading her Senate speech I think she convincingly demonstrated that through this bill the Government legally proscribes procedures that may be medically necessary, and that it does undermine Roe v. Wade.

This is fully supported by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) in their statement of 2007 after the Supreme Court upheld the bill:

Despite the fact that the safety advantages of intact dilatation and evacuation (intact D&E) procedures are widely recognized—in medical texts, peer-reviewed studies, clinical practice, and in mainstream, medical care in the United States—the US Supreme Court today upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. [..] According to the amicus brief opposing the Ban, the Act will chill doctors from providing a wide range of procedures used to perform induced abortions or to treat cases of miscarriage and will gravely endanger the health of women in this country.
I think Clinton was certainly right when she stated in her speech that the principle underlying this bill has no place in a democratic society and properly belongs in nations like Ceaucescu's Romania.

Good girl.
Seems from me that she opposed that Bill because it might have led to later legislation that further rolled back abortion. The reality is that that Bill does seem quite tighly focused, the Republicans might try to use it as a Spring Board but if that is so the Democrats should table a better Bill to protect viable late term foeti, rather that mud-slinging the opposition.