Bill Clinton: “I have great deal of respect for the experience of my colleague from Oklahoma. I believe he has served his patients in a…”

“I have great deal of respect for the experience of my colleague from Oklahoma. I believe he has served his patients in a conscientious, caring manner for all those 20-plus years he has been practicing medicine as an OB/GYN. He comes to the floor with his own experience. It is entitled to great weight because it is his experience. He has very passionately set forth his strong beliefs. I come from a different perspective. I have been a lawyer for a number of years. I was a law professor running a legal aid clinic at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville not far from the Oklahoma border when one day in my office I got a call from one of the local judges telling me he had assigned me to a case. That was pretty common. I said: Judge, what kind of case is it? He said: Well, I want you to represent this man who has been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl he is related to. I said: Judge, I don't really want to do that. He said: Professor, you are going to do it because I am signing the order right now. So I did. I got into the details of this sordid crime and how this man who was related to this family had abused this child. And the family, to be charitable, wasn't really all that attentive or caring. They were people of very modest means. They lived a pretty disorganized life, and they didn't watch out for their children.…”