Barbara Boxer: “He misunderstood and absolutely misrepresented what I said. What I said is that the underlying bill, which does not make…”

“He misunderstood and absolutely misrepresented what I said. What I said is that the underlying bill, which does not make an exception for the health of the woman, is an immoral bill. I do not think it is a moral bill. I think it is an immoral bill, and the reason I think it is an immoral bill is it makes no exception for the health of a woman, no matter how hard we try. We reached across the party line. We said we want to make an exception for health. Oh, no, women will lie. Oh, no, doctors will lie. We cannot have a health exception. People will lie. I feel sorry for a woman who finds herself in a circumstance where she is in desperate shape, in a pregnancy gone horribly wrong--and I have met many of them. I have seen their faces, and God bless them because they have come out and given up their privacy to talk about what they have gone through. I feel sorry for the next woman who is lying bleeding on a table and a doctor has to take out this law and say: I am not sure because your life may not be at stake. It may be your health, and if I use this safe procedure I might lose my license, I might go to jail. Anyone who wants to be party to that, be my guest. Thankfully, across the street there is a Supreme Court, and I think they will find this underlying bill unconstitutional because it is vague and because it does not make an exception for the health of the woman. Even the most rabid anti-choice people are now saying that this bill is surely unconstitutional.…”