If a child is born alive, that child is a person under the law and has rights. One of those rights is to proper medical care, period.

One of the really harmful consequences of this bill, in my opinion, is that there are some fetal conditions that cannot be diagnosed before the 20th week of pregnancy.

So you think that your liberty, along with your husband, in consultation with your doctor to do what was best for your family would have been precluded by this bill?

But the many Americans who see the world very differently, including millions of women who value their personal autonomy, can be forgiven if this looks like just another battle in the Republican war on women.

This seems to say that border enforcement spending all that money simply got us a lot more net illegal immigration.

Prior to IRCA, we had a largely unenforced border.

If someone is under the operational control of a belligerent power, he may be an unlawful enemy combatant.

I think it also applies to noncitizens in the United States, since the Constitution makes no distinction with respect to the constitutional rights in the Bill of Rights on people in the United States, whether they be citizens or not.

James Madison's words ring very, very true, and it is our job to try to make sure that our civil liberties survive intact.

I also would like to thank Sean Penn for his advocacy on behalf of Mr. Ostreicher, which is helping bringing international attention to this issue in a way that we couldn't otherwise.

I want to begin by thanking you and Ranking Member Bass for holding this hearing and for giving me the opportunity to participate although I am not a member of the committee.