CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 28, 2014
Mr. Blumenthal madam president , i ask that the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Blumenthal thank you, madam president. This month we celebrate the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in roe v. Wade, a ruling that assured every woman her constitutional right to make her own decision about whether and when to have a child, based on her fundamental right to have her privacy protected. I had the honor to clerk for the author of roe v. Wade, Justice Harry blackmun, in 1974, shortly after that decision. And i can say that in that year few of us expected...
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