Political Quotes

“Tonight, we mourn the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Today, we mourn the loss of over 50 million American lives. Mr. Speaker, my good friend and colleague from New Jersey, and my colleagues here tonight all know that I dedicated my professional life to delivering babies. Every day, every other day for 30 years, I had the honor to deliver a baby. Sometimes it was one. I delivered as many as 12 babies in a day. But a subject I have never talked about up here, a subject that few Americans talk about, is infertility and recurrent miscarriages. Hundreds of thousands of women have these problems, and for whatever reason, when I took care of women with miscarriages, women who so desperately wanted to have a baby--it might be her third, her fourth, her fifth miscarriage--and who were unable to have a baby, it was at moments like that that I thought about Roe v. Wade. It never made sense to me. This morning, I read from the Book of Ecclesiastes trying to make some sense of life up here. Still, here I am, 50-some years of age, and I haven't found the answer. How can I live in a country where in one hospital I am fighting to help a woman keep a baby, and 100 miles away, the largest abortion clinic in the country is taking life away? How can we live in that type of a country? Tonight I pledge, I recommit my support and my efforts to protect life.”