Joe Cunningham: “I would say that I respect the right of the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren) to take the position she does. But…”

“I would say that I respect the right of the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren) to take the position she does. But let me address it as a father myself of two beautiful daughters and an adopted son. If my wife was attacked and she was pregnant, or my daughters, and they both survived, then I would support the enhancement clause that the gentlewoman is trying to put in here. If either my wife or the unborn child was killed, then I would want justice, not enhancement. As a father, to know that a child that I was going to have that would not be born in this life because of some criminal act, I feel that that is wrong. In Bosnia there was a Muslim that offered a private a child and says, 'Help me get my child to the hospital.' On the way, the Muslim man said that, 'Help me, private.' The point is that they are all our children.”