Political Quotes

“if that happens anywhere at any time, if these Members of the House, including the one that just spoke, would work with us to pass a bill, we could put into law in the next few weeks, we could stop it from happening. But for anyone to suggest, as they have in fliers and ads, that we want to allow the abortion of a healthy baby just moments before childbirth is, as I said before and say again, totally dishonest and disgusting. I helped pass a bill that outlawed not one late-term-abortion procedure in Texas; we outlawed all late-term-abortion procedures in Texas. But in that bill that is now law in Texas we did what this bill should do. We said if the life or the health or the fertility of a woman is at risk, that moral and medical decisions should be made by a woman, her family and her doctor, and not by politicians and not by the government. Mr. Speaker, I urge the Members of this House to support the veto of this ill-fated, ill-designed legislation.”