Jim Sensenbrenner: “Mr. Speaker, we have heard people opposed to this bill say time and time again that this bill takes away the right to…”

“Mr. Speaker, we have heard people opposed to this bill say time and time again that this bill takes away the right to choose, and they are so so wrong. This bill respects the right of those who have chosen to carry their baby to term, because they want the baby to be born. The opponents of the bill have massed their arguments saying that we are providing legal protection for fertilized eggs and zygotes and blastocysts, but they ignore the fact that this bill provides protection regardless of at what stage of development the unborn child is. They would turn around and say defeat this bill because this dead child as a result of an act of violence against a woman in my home State of Wisconsin should not be protected. This is a child that was about ready to be born before he was murdered. The man who committed this crime, because it was a mere assault on the mother, is now out of prison. We have to pass this bill so that somebody who kills a child like this one spends a lot of time in prison to pay for his crime.”