Coburn, likewise, used his time to deliver a pro-life speech. After this long message, Coburn asked, "Would you agree that the opposite of being dead is being alive?"
Roberts hesitated. "Yes," he answered cautiously. To laughter, he added, "I don't mean to be overly cautious in answering."
"You know I'm going somewhere," Coburn said, and indeed everybody in the room knew. After another discussion of his anti-abortion views, Coburn said he wasn't even intending to ask a question about it. "That was for your information."
Coburn mentioned for the second time during the proceedings that he is a medical doctor. And the senator announced that he had pioneered a new medical field. "I've tried to use my medical skills of observation of body language to ascertain your uncomfortableness and ill at ease with questions and responses," he said. "And I will tell you that I am very pleased, both in my observational capabilities as a physician to know that your answers have been honest and forthright as I watch the rest of your body respond to the stress that you're under."
