Jerry Moran: “I do believe that when the issue of abortion is concerned, it really ought not be a legislative issue; it ought to be a…”

“I do believe that when the issue of abortion is concerned, it really ought not be a legislative issue; it ought to be a personal decision determined by a woman with the advice of her physician, within the context of her religion and family. I do agree with the Roe versus Wade decision which attempted to apply our human values, human judgment, to an issue on which none of us can ever be sure: at which point human life begins. And so we decided in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that in the first 3 months, the woman should be fully free to exercise her judgment; and in the second trimester, the democratic process through State legislatures should apply restrictions; and in the third trimester, we should try to make it as difficult as possible. What we are talking about now, though, goes beyond that third trimester. We are talking about the delivery of a fetus clearly in the shape and with the functions of a human being. And when that human being is delivered in the birth canal, it cannot be masked as anything but a human being. We should not act in any legislative way that sanctions the termination of that life.”