Barbara Boxer: “I would rather have the chance, if someone is going to attack me on an issue, that that person be courageous enough to…”

“I would rather have the chance, if someone is going to attack me on an issue, that that person be courageous enough to do it when I am on the floor of the U.S. Senate. So I have come back to the floor to speak. What I want to say is that the vast majority of Americans believe this entire subject should be left to the privacy of families, to the religious convictions of our people, and that U.S. Senators do not belong in the hospital room, they do not belong in the consulting room, and if the woman is told by a doctor, ``You might die unless I use a certain procedure, you might die, and the children you have now will not have a mother,'' and if that doctor believes this procedure is the only one to save the life of that woman or to spare her a life of infertility or paralysis, I believe families should have the right to make that choice.”