John Conyers: “I fully respect the gentlewoman from Florida who has introduced this measure. I point out to her that normally, there is…”

“I fully respect the gentlewoman from Florida who has introduced this measure. I point out to her that normally, there is some Federal jurisdictional requirement that is cited in a bill of this kind that applies to a State, and that there is none such in this bill. I am not quite sure if she was aware that there was in the Federal Criminal Code a measure that precludes in the Federal law at this moment a sentence from death being carried out upon a woman while she is still pregnant. I would ask the gentlewoman from Florida if she were aware of the existence of such a provision in our Federal law.”