Dianne Feinstein: “I was sitting in my office doing work, and I heard the statement that this is abortion on demand. I thought it might be…”

“I was sitting in my office doing work, and I heard the statement that this is abortion on demand. I thought it might be useful for me to read into the Record one letter I received last year from a woman on this very subject that indicates the difficulty of the circumstances women can find themselves in while living overseas. I am about to read the story of Holly Webb. Holly is the wife of a staff sergeant in the Air Force stationed in Misawa, Japan. I would like you to hear her story: My husband was stationed in Misawa, Japan, and I moved over in September 2001 to join him. I was pregnant for the first time. Prior to my arrival in Japan, I felt like something was wrong with my pregnancy, and at 6 weeks I went to the emergency room at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida where we had been stationed. My doctor there told me that everything seemed OK from what they could tell. At 16 weeks, I was in Japan with my husband, and I started bleeding. I would bleed weekly for 5 days and then the bleeding would subside. I went to the military hospital at Misawa and they told me I had a placenta previa and that this was a normal side effect and they sent me home. Just so everybody knows, placenta previa is a serious problem some women confront which can impact their pregnancy.”