Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stop lying. Stop lying. Roe did not make abortion illegal, it returned the issue to the States. Now we see that you all want to take those rights away from the States--strip them, in fact. Under this bill that we are considering here today, you want to take this issue further than Roe ever did and take away the rights of children, those most vulnerable. The notion that women will somehow be stopped at checkpoints, in some 1984 scenario, this is insane and political fear-mongering at its best. You know that. You know that. I hear constantly about these ``extreme positions'' that conservatives and those in the pro-life movement are taking, but what is extreme is not taking a stand for the child that survives an abortion attempt. That is extreme. Denying medical care for that child, that is the extreme. Madam Speaker, I always say--and bless your heart, 36 years of service, that is incredible, 2 years longer than I have been alive. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.”