Patricia Schroeder: “Mr. Speaker, I eagerly, eagerly ask Members to vote against this rule. This rule is one more gag rule put on doctors…”

“Mr. Speaker, I eagerly, eagerly ask Members to vote against this rule. This rule is one more gag rule put on doctors dealing with women and their families in the most difficult situations that any family would ever have to face. I think it is unbelievable that we are gagging Members of Congress from being able to deal with the severe and adverse health conditions a woman can have, and that is what is being done. We are not being allowed to present that amendment. The reason we are doing this today is really all political. Let us be honest. We have a letter from the President pointing out he will veto this bill in this form because it violates Roe versus Wade. We now have a new decision, a 100-page decision in Ohio, where the same kind of procedure was tested and the court said no, that is violative of Roe versus Wade. We have heard so many statements made here that were incorrect, that you do not even know what to say. People get up and they obsess on this, they obsess on this procedure and they obsess on all this stuff. The real issue is, show me an obstetrician and gynecologist that is going to do something terrible and evil and awful. We try to make this into a witch trial. Show me parents that would want this. These are crisis situations, where everything has gone wrong. We are only talking here about late, late abortions, where people were clinging to that child trying to go as far as possible.”