Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman from New Jersey, and I start again from the beginning, Mr. Speaker. This is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I never imagined that we would be here 40 years afterwards, 55 million abortions afterwards, still seeking respect for innocent, unborn human life and the right of personhood that many over on the other side of the aisle also claim one should have once they're born. But they give no right, no dignity to babies who are preborn. I would like to provide some of the narrative here of a story written by Joyce Zounis. Joyce's narrative is about her life. Each one of these are just heart-wrenching, and this is among those heart-wrenching stories shared now by millions around the country. Joyce's story starts out with this in bold, ``We will not speak of this again.'' It's her mother telling her as a 15-year-old girl on the way to the abortion clinic that there would be no discussion outside of what happened that day. That's at age 15. It says that ``the room was filled with many girls,'' of which she knew weren't able to keep it as a secret. They said it won't hurt; it did. They said it would be over real quick; it has lasted 35 years. And 11 years later--here's the narrative, Mr. Speaker: Eleven years, three clinics, two States, seven abortions, not once was I told of the traumatic suffering that would follow, which it did.…”