James Norton: “The real purpose of this bill is clear. It is yet another attempt to sacrifice women and girls, to drive back the right…”

“The real purpose of this bill is clear. It is yet another attempt to sacrifice women and girls, to drive back the right to choose by any means necessary, whatever the consequences. America ought to be on notice, these folks have lost, because the people have spoken on the right to choose, the people and the courts have spoken on the right to choose. So they have lost on that question. They have adopted another strategy. They are trying to do incrementally to the right to choose what they have been unable to do through frontal attacks on the right to choose. What is particularly serious, as far as this Member is concerned, is who this bill is really aimed at. This bill chooses to go at the most vulnerable girls in this society. They are disproportionately girls of color. I resent the fact that this bill goes after those who are most likely to come from broken families, most likely to be abused children, and I stand here to speak for them. The most vulnerable people in the country are girls who find themselves pregnant and alone with not even a parent they can turn to.”