association of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists, and lastly several ob/gyn physicians including john thorpe, north carolina, steven calvin, minnesota, byron calhoun of west virginia. thank you. >> all those documents will be made a part of the record without objection. senator hirono. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i represent a state, hawaii, that has been a leader in protecting women's health and safety. and, in fact, in 1970 we were i believe the first in the country to decriminalize abortion, a woman's right to choose. and, therefore, protecting a woman's right to choose, and i also want to mention by background that the state senator who led the charge to provide women in hawaii the right to choose was a practicing catholic, and the governor of the state of hawaii who allowed this bill, this very important bill to become law to protect a woman's right to make that choice was a practicing catholic who went to mass every single day. we in hawaii understand the separation of church versus state. i do agree abortion is a different procedure from other medical procedures because it's foundatio

john bell hood named it hood hospital. there is hood avenue in atlanta. there is, and then there are numerous sites in texas, manassas. fort over thorpe -- fort oglethorpe, which you might expect. but believe it or not, there are streets and roads named for john bell hood in brentwood, in nashville there are two of them. and in franklin, tennessee of all places, there are two streets named after john bell hood. good't know what hood -- real estate developer would spend millions of dollars developing a subdivision and naming streets in honor of drug-addicted army commanders, but something obviously happened 's the last 40 years with hood reputation. so one of the problems, wiley seward, a very influential and successful civil war historian. full withhood was a a license to kill his own men." in an article in the " wall street journal", " john bell hood was the most destructive american of all time." this was in an article on whether the faa was going to allow cell phone use in flight. somehow, john bell hood got brought into that one. it is pretty outrageous. as a matter of fact, even woo dworth, an author, very well respected, he wrot