"MR. FLOWERS: On the seventh day, I think that the heart, in some form, starts beating. On the twentieth day, practically all the facilities are there that you and I have, Your Honor. Your Honor. I think that -- QUESTION: Well, if you’re correct that the fetus is a person, then I don’t suppose you’d have – the State would have great trouble permitting an abortion, would it? MR. FLOWERS: Yes, sir. QUESTION: In any circumstance? MR. FLOWERS: It would, yes, sir. QUESTION: To save the life of a mother or her health or anything else? MR. FLOWERS: Well, there would be the balancing of the two lives, and I think that -- QUESTION: Well, what would you choose? Would you choose to kill the innocent one, or what? MR. FLOWERS: Well, in our statute the State did choose that way, Your Honor. QUESTION: Well, -- MR. FLOWERS: The protection of the mother. QUESTION: Well, did the State of Tesas say that if it is for the benefit of the health of the wife to kill the husband? [Laughter.] MR. FLOWERS: I’m sorry, I didn’t understand your question. QUESTION: Could Texas say if it confronts the situation for the benefit of the health of the wife, that the husband has to die; could they kill him? MR. FLOWERS: I wouldn’t think so, sir."