Xavier Becerra: “I want to ask each and every Member who is somewhat in doubt to please vote to sustain the President's veto of H.R.…”

“I want to ask each and every Member who is somewhat in doubt to please vote to sustain the President's veto of H.R. 1833, and let me relate it to something very personal. My legislative director, Deirdre Martinez, right now is at the hospital. She is at the hospital because she is being induced in her delivery of her baby. She is in good hands, and I know she is in good hands because my wife happens to be her ob-gyn. My wife, as I have mentioned in the past, is an ob-gyn, and she is a high-risk specialist. She deals with the type of issues we are discussing on the floor right now. Deirdre is fortunate. My wife says her baby seems to be perfectly normal, good weight, and probably will be born very healthy. There are, unfortunately, too many women sometimes in this country who do not have the good fortune of Deirdre, and it is in time of need that some of these women ask doctors to help them out. There are late-term abortions that are performed that are not pretty because--by the way, no abortion is pretty; and no woman, I suspect, can stand up here and say they like to see what may happen to that pregnancy. But there are cases where a late-term abortion must be performed.”