Patricia Schroeder: “DOD has a conscience clause. DOD has a parental-consent clause that they vigorously enforce. There have been only about…”

“DOD has a conscience clause. DOD has a parental-consent clause that they vigorously enforce. There have been only about 10 abortions that people paid for with their own money in the entire time this was in practice. When we send people overseas, this is not voluntary. We order them to go overseas, and no one else would tolerate what the Dornan amendment is trying to do. If we said, ``When you go overseas, you can no longer have your free speech, thank you very much; when you go overseas, you can no longer have your freedom of religion, we don't want you practicing religion that would offend anybody, we don't want you to have the right to assemble with different groups, we don't want you * * *,'' people would go crazy. They would say this is our front line of defense defending our rights, and, no matter whether we agree with what they say, or who they assemble with, or what their religion is, we do not want to have that enforced on them just because they are offshore defending our wonderful rights. Well, that is what my colleagues are doing today. They are doing that to women if they vote for Dornan. Vote ``no'' on Dornan, and vote for the DeLauro substitute.”