Political Quotes

“I was struck--and as the testimony I have had printed in the Record will indicate--by the efforts on the part of the advocates to try to fuzz up this issue and make assertions that were patently inaccurate and inconsistent during the course of that hearing. In my judgment, we should be able to end this practice and we should be able to end it in the context of this legislation which provides, I think, protections for the life of the mother in sufficient fashion to meet whatever standards society might demand. I understand why some had concerns the last time we debated this issue. Back then, we were told that only a few of these partial-birth abortions were conducted per year. We were told that they only occurred late, very late, in the process of a pregnancy, so late that this was the only option available. We were also told that they were exclusively used in these very rare circumstances to deal with serious fetal defects in high-risk circumstances. But this year we enter the debate in a different context. We now know that those three pieces of information were not true.”