Political Quotes

“it happens I was ill on December 7, 1995, when the measure before us now was first voted on by the Senate. Had I been present, I would have voted in favor of the bill, and today I will vote to override the President's veto. Some while later, I was asked about the matter. I referred to the particulars of the medical procedure, as best I understood them. In an article in this morning's New York Times, our former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop writes: In this procedure, a doctor pulls out the baby's feet first, until the baby's head is lodged in the birth canal. Then, the doctor forces scissors through the base of the baby's skull, suctions out the brain, and crushes the skull to make extraction easier. Even some pro-choice advocates wince at this, as when Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed it ``close to infanticide.'' It is the terrible fact of our national debate over abortion that there has seemed no possibility of compromise as between opposing views; as if we are consigned to unceasing conflict.”