Hilda L. Solis: “I am disappointed also that we are spending these last few hours here while we are in session before we go on a 5-week…”

“I am disappointed also that we are spending these last few hours here while we are in session before we go on a 5-week break to talk about this issue, because I do not think it is one that the public and constituents in my district really think is of an urgent nature. I say that in a very respectful way, because I truly believe that to understand this issue of late-term abortion is to understand the circumstances that some women have had to take in their past because of something that was not in their control. I also want to share a personal experience, not one of my own, but of a family member. My older sister many years ago had to have a late-term abortion. This was going to be her third child. The last one she had was already at age 12, so she wanted to have another child. She was very excited about her pregnancy. In her fifth month she was told by her doctor that this fetus was not forming or developing appropriately, in fact, it did not have a brain, so if she were to continue with this pregnancy, she in fact would not be giving birth to anything that would be able to sustain itself.”