Patty Murray: “I found myself going home last night feeling more and more angry. I asked myself, why is it that I feel so angry…”

“I found myself going home last night feeling more and more angry. I asked myself, why is it that I feel so angry listening to this debate? I realized it was because I feel that we have really offended the women and the families who have had to make this decision, and they probably are sitting at home watching this debate in tears. Because none of us were there when they had to face a horrendous decision, women and men, young families, who wanted very much to have a baby, who found themselves at the end of a long pregnancy, after months of people coming up to them and telling them, 'Oh, how exciting. When is your baby due?' Of planning for that baby, of having the furniture ready in the baby's room. Only at the end of that pregnancy to find out there were tragic circumstances involved, that perhaps their baby's brain was not formed, that their baby would not survive. Not only that, but to be told by their doctor that if this baby were to be delivered at the end of 9 months, the woman's life would be in serious jeopardy, or perhaps her ability to have future children.”