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Coburn promotes faith and science  view story
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Chris Casteel - - Oklahoman
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For Tom Coburn, it was an intersection of his faith and his science and his desire to apply both to public policy.
In 1999, Coburn, a physician and then an Oklahoma U.S. representative, authored a resolution in Congress stating that brain wave activity is present in a fetus 41 days after conception and a heartbeat is detectable after 24 days.
"The Supreme Court ruled they didn't know where life begins," Coburn said in an interview recently, referring to the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade case about abortion. "We can show that scientifically. And as science improves, we're going to be able to get that down to day one."
The resolution never came up for a vote, but Coburn said if he's elected to the U.S. Senate this year, he'll try again.
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