Patricia Schroeder: “I end where I began, looking at this chart. Mr. Chairman, the right to have access to family planning clinics is a…”

“I end where I began, looking at this chart. Mr. Chairman, the right to have access to family planning clinics is a Federal right. It is a constitutional right. Mr. Chairman, I feel badly if we have violence outside clinics, but we are not protecting bunny rabbits federally. We are trying to do it federally, but not at the constitutional level. Besides, we do not see a huge national conspiracy around this. We see all sorts of tap dancing around this issue, where nobody wants to really do the real thing, which is this amendment, and put it on-line. What have we heard? We have heard, first of all, that some people do not like my amendment because it does not have the word 'public' in it, and they are all saying they like the amendment of the gentleman from New Mexico [Mr. Schiff]. However, the amendment of the gentleman from New Mexico does not have 'public' in it, either. It says 'In and around any other facility or location.' They say 'facility or location,' but they do not want to say 'a clinic.' We know they can go to facilities or locations. That is what the block grant is about. It is to help localities fight generic crime. However, where we are really behind is supporting on this federally protected right that women have missed. Women know that if there is a right without a remedy, there is no right.…”