Political Quotes

“when I first voted on this bill in November of 1995, I agonized about it, because my wife was pregnant, 8 months pregnant with our first child, a child that I had prayed and hoped for. Fortunately, that baby was born and is today the joy of our life. But I voted against this bill at that time because I felt no one, no one in this House had the right to tell my wife or me what we should do if her health or her fertility had been at risk. Today I am voting against this bill with another person in mind, the child by the name of Nicholas Stella, born 1 week before our first blessed child came into this world. Had this bill been law 3 years ago, Nicholas Stella would not be alive today. What right does any Member of this House to tell Vicky Stella that she should have been denied the joy of having her son, just as we have had the joy, so many of us, of having children ourselves? I am voting pro-life. I am voting for the lives of Nicholas Stella and all the other children who would not be alive today had this bill been the law of the land.”