Randall Cunningham: “I think Members on both sides of this issue would agree that violence that is senseless, or any violence is senseless…”

“I think Members on both sides of this issue would agree that violence that is senseless, or any violence is senseless, and we want to stop that. But both sides, I think if they would be out on the picket lines and would witness someone that is committing violence, would stop that, and that is protected by State laws. But let me tell you where my real problem is with the bill. If you reworded it, I might even be able to support it. My fear is, I have two daughters. When we talk about interfere and intimidate, both my daughters are underage. One is 11; one is 15. If either one of them underage were in a clinic receiving an abortion, I would walk into that clinic and there would be no power alive that would prevent me from going in and taking my 11-year-old or my 15-year-old out of that clinic, as a father. Under what some Members want to do is make that a Federal penalty. There is a State law, if I abuse or hurt my daughters, then that is going to be effected. But if I would merely walk in, throw them over my shoulder and take them out, that would be a Federal penalty. I, as a father, would not allow that to happen. I think that if we want to have a bill to enforce State law for violence, then both sides of the aisle are going to support it. But there is an agenda here. That agenda is what we are against.”