Political Quotes

“once again this body has been given the opportunity to draw a line against barbarism and brutality by outlawing a form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion. I will not belabor the gruesome details. All of us understand the mechanics of this horrendous procedure. Despite the myths that were promulgated by the abortion industry, we know that this procedure is designed to camouflage infanticide as a therapy. We have all heard how Ron Fitzsimmons of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers confessed to having lied to defend the indefensible. The fact that Fitzsimmons was misleading people was already known last year. In a Wall Street Journal article, a number of doctors had already refuted the myths last year that had been put forward about this procedure. They pointed out that the defenders of this procedure first claimed that the abortion practice did not exist. Then they claimed that the child, yes the child, was already killed by anesthesia. That also turned out to be false. The fact is that this horror is real and that 80 percent of the time this brutal procedure is elective. While the goal of this legislation is to put an end to this particularly horrifying procedure, I believe that the debate surrounding this legislation has served to remind the American people about the true nature of abortion, that a child is killed. It is the sacred nature of each child's life that compels this legislation.”