Patricia Schroeder: “I really want to thank President Clinton and thank him very sincerely. Because while we as Americans all say that we are…”

“I really want to thank President Clinton and thank him very sincerely. Because while we as Americans all say that we are all different, but we are all equal, it is always hard to apply that. The President did apply that standard. President Clinton listened carefully to women who had their pregnancies go off track late in the pregnancy, go terribly wrong, all sorts of awful things happening to them, and President Clinton, hearing them, had the courage to then veto the so-called partial birth abortion bill. Now, the political thing to do was let it become law without signing it, do all sorts of things. But that would really be saying women are second class citizens. And why? I think any woman would be horrified to know that this Congress wants to make a law that says that if your doctor considers what he thinks or she thinks is best for your health, they could become a criminal. We do not do that for any other area. We have never done this before. There has been so much distortion about this bill.”