Patrick Kennedy: “the point I want to make is, here these women are serving our country, and, guess what? There is something called the…”

“the point I want to make is, here these women are serving our country, and, guess what? There is something called the Supreme Court, and it gives us our constitutional rights, and in those constitutional rights is the right to a legal and safe abortion. It is a constitutional right. These women are defending this country's Constitution, standing on the line defending the right of this country to express itself in freedom. Yet they themselves are being denied their constitutional rights. Just as that happened with the defense bill, now the majority is going after Federal employees. So it seems to me the only people in this country who are going to be truly denied their constitutional rights are the women who are serving in our Nation's military and our women who happen to be Federal employees. I would dare say, just to make this one last point, it is interesting here in this Congress, I enjoy seeing my colleagues snicker over here, because 95 percent of the women Members of this United States Congress support the DeLauro amendment, and we are going to say, the men in this House are going to decide whether women have a certain type of reproductive freedom or not. To me that sounds awfully like gender domination here. If it does not sound like that to you, it would be interesting if men were able to get pregnant and they would have the right, see whether they were going to stand up here and not vote for the DeLauro amendment.”