Political Quotes

“I support the Hoyer-Greenwood amendment for two reasons. First, this amendment makes illegal all late-term abortion procedures, unlike the underlying bill that only outlaws one late-term abortion procedure while, amazingly, allowing all other late-term abortion procedures to be left perfectly legal. Second, passing an unconstitutional bill is not going to save one child's life. Not one. We know what the Supreme Court decision has said. It said it June 28 of 2000. The Supreme Court said, even in italics, that if you do not have a health exception, the bill will not become law. To put it in italics by the Supreme Court makes it about as clear as we can make the English language be. I find it, Mr. Speaker, amazing that those who say their goal, and I trust their convictions, is to save babies' lives, why would you not want to ban all late-term abortions? If you assume these women are such monsters that just seconds before a perfectly healthy childbirth they would want to kill that baby, then I guess you could also assume very understandably she would just ask the doctor to use one of the other late-term abortion procedures. Sixteen years ago, as a member of the Texas Senate, I was not interested in sound bites or partisanship. I was interested in banning all late-term abortion procedures, because no matter how a baby dies, if he dies frivolously late term, that is morally wrong in my book.”