Political Quotes

“I just ascribe the failure to consider the unborn, and I listened to all of the impassioned remarks of my friends on the other side, they never talk about the unborn. It is the woman, it is her family, it is her doctor, but the little tiny infant in the shadows, the absent person, the invisible person is the unborn, and that is a failure of imagination. That is a compassion deficit. Mr. Speaker, I guess you have to be healthy to be born. I guess our Declaration of Independence, when it talked about the right to life being inalienable should have said if you are healthy, if you are healthy. God help you if you are handicapped before you are born. But if you make it through the birth canal, we will give you a preferred parking place. That is the way we deal with those situations. No, the partial birth abortion, which is just what it is. It is not an exercise of reproductive rights, and it is not a fetus. It is an abortion. It is not a termination of a pregnancy.”