Political Quotes

“This bill is controversial for one reason and one reason only. The majority absolutely, in both branches, refused to allow an amendment that would have provided an exception where the health of the mother was at stake. In the other body, such an amendment was put forward and it was defeated. In this House, we went to the Committee on Rules and asked for the right to present it, and we were not allowed to do it. If the majority feels that the health-generated abortions of this sort are such a minuscule portion of the total, why have they adamantly refused to allow us to vote on such an amendment? We are talking here when we talk about health, about cases where the child to be born is unfortunately so severely deformed as to have no chance of life whatsoever, and the question is, if a doctor decides late in a pregnancy when this is discovered that the child will not survive if born and that this is the method of abortion that minimizes risk to the mother, this bill makes that a crime. We were not even allowed to vote on that.”