Jerry Nadler: “the answer is yes, I do. As I said a moment or two ago, I do not see a difference between the baby a moment before or a…”

“the answer is yes, I do. As I said a moment or two ago, I do not see a difference between the baby a moment before or a moment after delivery at full term. When that dividing line is, I do not claim to know. I certainly do not claim to impose my opinion on any woman who has to make that decision for herself with respect to her own pregnancy. She must make the decision as to the morality and the rightness of what she chooses to do, and that is why I favor freedom of choice, because I cannot impose my opinion on that question on anyone else. I am not even sure of the answer for myself. Therefore, this comes basically down to just another way of trying to get around a woman's constitutional right to make that choice for herself, and to impose some of our opinions, some of the opinions of those of us in this Chamber on every individual woman, and that we have no right, no moral right, and the Supreme Court has said to us we have no constitutional right to do; and that is why this amendment should be adopted.”