'I'm postmenopausal, congressman': Catholic witness pressed on birth control

A Catholic law professor was forced into an awkward situation in a House hearing when a Democratic congressman asked her for her opinion on birth control.

The hearing, held Wednesday, was about a Democrat-supported bill called the Women’s Health Protection Act that would throw out state restrictions on abortions. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat from North Carolina, turned his attention to the professor in question, named Teresa Stanton Collett, who was one of the witnesses invited to testify in favor of abortion restrictions. Collett is director of the Pro-Life Center at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis and has identified as Catholic in her writings.