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Robert Dornan: Right, and how could a good Irish Catholic politician tell me not to talk about abortion, the chief moral issue? And now…

On the recordJuly 26, 1996
Right, and how could a good Irish Catholic politician tell me not to talk about abortion, the chief moral issue? And now we are debating homosexual sodomy marriage and killing a baby by puncturing his head and taking its brains out when his arms and legs are out in the world moving and it is four-fifths born. That, as the Pope says and Billy Graham says, is infanticide.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Addressing issues of abortion and same-sex marriage during a floor speech.

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