Matt Salmon: “I am not going to stand up here and rant and rave or accuse the other side of being evilminded, because frankly, I think…”

“I am not going to stand up here and rant and rave or accuse the other side of being evilminded, because frankly, I think there are a lot of people over there that strongly believe in their position, but I believe they are really misguided. I think instead of using their heads, maybe it is time to use their hearts. This issue is divided between whether we should save the life of the mother or save the life of the child. Life is life. It is important no matter whose life it is. It really saddens me that we cannot stand up for the most innocent of life. We have detailed how gruesome and how disgusting this procedure is. Many would stand up when we talk about China, when a baby girl has her back snapped when she is born because the people want a baby boy instead of a baby girl and they have a one-child policy. We say that is disgusting. We say that is infanticide. If this is not infanticide, then what is? I would think that our God goes to the outer edges of our universe and weeps bitterly that a people could do this to the most innocent in a society. Let us stand up for all life, be it the life of the mother or the life of the baby. Let us stop this heinous practice.”