Political Quotes

“I wish I had more time to answer the gentlewoman from New York. She is a wonderful person. She is a sincere person. Her motives are most noble, and I wish everyone on her side would understand this is not politics. This is a tough issue for anybody. We happen to believe in protecting the unborn child. We happen to think the health of the mother does not equal the life of the unborn. That is not a good trade-off. That is where we get stuck. We hear from doctors, like Dr. Hearn, who wrote the book on abortion, that if a woman is pregnant she is in a life-threatening condition. Do we want him to make the decision on what is grievous physical health? We have problems, but it is not that we are not willing to negotiate on them. Mr. Speaker, abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution. The abortion license was an invention by seven Supreme Court justices. But cruel and unusual punishment is in the Constitution. And by any definition, partial-birth abortion is cruel and unusual punishment, punishment for the capital crime of being unloved and unwanted. Every abortion happens over somebody's dead body. We hear a lot about the woman, and we should, but we do not hear a scintilla about the little girl baby, the little boy baby whose heart is beating wildly and who is flailing, their having been almost delivered and who want to live. We do not hear about them.”