"President Obama has urged Americans to find common ground on the controversial issue of abortion."
"this is a ghastly, gruesome and ghoulish procedure, and it is dismemberment abortion."
"Let me say I also think now is the time to end taxpayer funding not only for abortion but also for abortion providers."
"It is axiomatic that when government subsidizes conduct, it encourages it."
"This legislation is really about whether the role of America's government is to continue to fund a practice that takes the lives of over 1 million little Americans every year."
"Abraham Lincoln called upon all of us to remember America's Founding Fathers and, 'Their enlightened belief that nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodde..."
"Thomas Jefferson said that the care of human life and its happiness and not its destruction is the chief and only object of good government."
"we should go to all steps to stop Federal dollars from going to abortion."
"I believe the time has come for that to end."
"For me I can't see much difference between partial birth abortion and dismemberment abortion."
"Planned Parenthood is far and away the largest abortion provider in America, and they are also the largest recipient of Federal funding under Title X."