Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman, Mr. Smith, not just for the introduction, but for the fine work you've done for so many years, sir, as well as Joe Pitts, our good friend and colleague. Mr. Speaker, I speak to you this evening as a physician of over 30 years, a father, and a grandfather. And I have delivered, myself, many hundred babies and have found that that is one of the most important and intimate times in a person's life is taking part of and in some way delivering a baby. {time} 2050 Nonetheless, we have today a problem since Roe v. Wade that we are in great grievance about. You heard Mr. Walberg so eloquently talk about the passages from the Bible that describe about knitting me in the womb and knowing me even before being born. But do you realize that the DNA of every conceived life is unique in history? There will never be another like it. In my opinion, that is God's opinion, that that is a separate and distinct human being and a person upon itself. Let me share some facts with you. Do you realize that the heart begins beating at 23 days after conception, that the fetus begins to feel pain as early as 20 weeks and maybe even earlier? We are still waiting for some studies on that. Certainly any abortion that is committed in the middle or third trimester is obviously extreme agony for any type of fetus. Some other important facts. While there were approximately 744,000 abortions in 1973, the time of Roe v. Wade, that actually peaked in 1990 at 1.6 million. It has come down.…”