what life is more important-- a baby or a chicken

A Congressional committee on this past Wednesday decided to vote against an amendment that would prohibit taking teenagers out of state for secret abortions without their parents' knowledge. This seems to be a no brainer for me but who knows in this day in age. The most interesting part though is what follows. The committee eventually decided protecting chickens was more important than protecting children.
The House Judiciary Committee considered a bill to limit animal fighting such as using cockfighters.The bill prohibits transporting the animals across state lines to participate in these fights. During the debate, pro-life Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, tried to attach an amendment to the bill to prevent someone other than a teenager's parents from taking her to another state to have an abortion. Once again, no one other than a teenage girls parents should be helping her make this decision, besides her boyfriend perhaps. But that was not the case with Marcia Carroll.
Sensenbrenner brought up the case of Marcia Carroll, whose 14-year-old daughter was coerced by her boyfriend's family into traveling from her home state of Pennsylvania to New Jersey to have an abortion against her will.
"I recognize we are meeting here today to consider a bill to protect chickens," Sensenbrenner said in a statement given to LifeNews.com. "But isn't protecting our nation's young women, like Mr. Carroll's daughter, and their unborn equally, if not more important, than our dinner entree?"
"Without this amendment, we will be giving more protection to chickens than we will be giving to minor children, their parents and their unborn baby," he said



I do agree with this position, surprise surprise, but I also thought it was a good example for the class where things are either pushed through, or prevented from being passed, by adding different elements to certain bills and amendments.