Patricia Schroeder: “Ladies and gentleman, antichoice violence is on a rampage in this country, and this is a federally protected right…”

“Ladies and gentleman, antichoice violence is on a rampage in this country, and this is a federally protected right, federally protected right. But we are asking local law enforcement to protect it, and local law enforcement has become overwhelmed. Let me show Members this chart. All the red areas are States where reproductive clinics have decreased in the last 10 years. Decreased. And why would they not decrease when people who work in these clinics have been under siege, and when we have at the desk, and I hope every one of my colleagues comes to look at every incidence of violence we could find in each individual State that has been documented just in the last 2 years, just in the last 2 years. It goes on and on and on and I would take my full hour or more to read it all. But this kind of violence is absolutely intolerable, and it seems to me if we are sending Federal money to localities, the one thing we should do is say to localities that they will be able to utilize this money to protect federally protected laws and federally protected rights.”