Political Quotes

“I have sort of an interesting distinction in that of all of the Members of this body, I am the parent with the youngest child as of this moment, a 3-week-old son who, of course, we are very excited about and love very much. He was born 3 weeks ago today. I was there for the delivery. While it was happening, my wife and I both thought a lot about the birth of our twin daughters who were born 3 years and 3 months ago. They were born prematurely. They had to stay in a hospital for several weeks in a neonatal intensive care unit. We experienced firsthand the kinds of miracles that go on today all across this country with the births, at very early stages, of babies who survive. In that neonatal unit there were children who were born weeks and weeks, including months, early and had been born with birth weights slightly over a pound who were in the hospital for many months who survived. The fact is, those were babies exactly like the babies who, in a partial-birth abortion, do not survive.”