Patricia Schroeder: “I wanted this body to hear what the gentlewoman said because that has been our position all along. We do not wish to…”

“I wanted this body to hear what the gentlewoman said because that has been our position all along. We do not wish to hurt good mothers. That was the President's position. That is still our position. I was the one who went to the Committee on Rules and went everywhere trying to get an amendment to deal with the serious health issues of a mother. Nobody wants this for vanity purposes. My skin crawls as I hear Members on this floor talking about thousands of women get these late term abortions for vanity purposes, like all women have such dark hearts they would wait to postviability and then suddenly decide, I changed my mind. There may be some of those cases, I do not know. But I must tell you, all of us are willing to ban those cases. We are talking about the cases where women desperately want to have a family and something goes terribly wrong. Many of my colleagues have heard about our friend here, have seen this picture before, but the real good news was after she had that procedure, look what she got. She got little Tucker. We really ought to say, this is what this is about, because this women was able to have this procedure late in her term in a very, very sad pregnancy that went very, very wrong. She was able to preserve her reproductive ability and go on to add to this happy American family. Do we want the Congress of the United States saying no to that? I certainly do not. I certainly do not.”