Political Quotes

“back in September of 1999, when this bill came before us, one of the opponents of the bill said this, because the criminal attack on a woman causing her to lose a child and an abortion are too easy to confuse, we need to vote against this bill. Now we are again hearing today that it is hard to distinguish between a criminal attack on a woman which kills her baby and an abortion. But I say, I think the American people can distinguish between the two of those, and I think Members of this body can. We also heard today, and we heard in that earlier argument, that this bill would do a dangerous thing. It would recognize the legal status of an unborn child. Now that is pretty dangerous, is it not, recognizing the legal status of an unborn child? Is an unborn child illegal? Are they born into the world illegal? When do they pass from illegal to legal? I think if a mother wants to have a child, wants to have that child born, wants to raise that child, that child is legal. I want to talk about something else, something else that the opponents I do not think would want to talk about, and I think this is particularly telling, it is an article in the March 2001 Journal of American Medicine, and it simply says one thing, the disturbing finding that a pregnant or recently pregnant woman is more likely to be a victim of homicide than due to any other cause.”