Bobby Scott: “I include for the Record an editorial published this morning in the daily newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginian…”

“I include for the Record an editorial published this morning in the daily newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, the Virginian Pilot, on this issue. [From the Virginia Pilot, May 5, 2005] A House Divided Against Itself The mood in certain precincts of Congress has become so poisonous that people aren't speaking our common language unless they're accusing political opponents of unspeakable crimes. The ``Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act'' would make it a federal offense to take a minor across a state line to get an abortion without the consent of her parents, for a physician to perform such abortions, and allows parents to sue anybody who does. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee offered several amendments that would have limited the law's scope. U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, for example, sought to insert this line: ``The prohibitions of this section do not apply with respect to conduct by taxicab drivers, bus drivers or others in the business of professional transport.'' Pretty straightforward, right? Should the U.S. government prosecute a bus driver because a girl in one of its seats is traveling to end a pregnancy? No matter your answer to that question, the congressman's wording is pretty clear, unless you're a member of the Judiciary Committee's staff, which managed Scott's amendment into this: ``Mr.…”