Tom Tancredo: “I am not an attorney, and I am not a constitutional scholar. I do not know of the implications that have been referred…”

“I am not an attorney, and I am not a constitutional scholar. I do not know of the implications that have been referred to up to this point in time with regard to this bill's impact on Roe versus Wade, and I do not care. It is not the reason why I support the bill. It has been mentioned by the previous speaker that everybody in the body wanted to protect the rights of women when they were carrying a child. It is certainly true that that is a desire on my part. But I certainly go beyond that. I not only wish to protect her rights, I wish to protect the rights of the child she is carrying. Justice is what we seek, of course. Who is worthy of receiving justice when a violent crime is carried out against the will of people? This legislation... will bring unborn children under the protection of Federal law and finally acknowledge the separate crime that takes place when an unborn child is either harmed or killed during a criminal act. It actually amazes me that current Federal law treats an assault on a pregnant woman in which the unborn child is killed the same way as if it were an assault on a woman who was not pregnant. There is a difference. Amazing it is for some people to believe and understand, there is a difference. It is far time that the Congress of the United States recognize that fact.”