Political Quotes

“Let me say this, if in fact Members were confident of that, then the amendment would be harmless because this bill does not say, I do not like this bill, but I am dealing with the framework you put forward, the bill does not say, if in the opinion of the physician, it says you can have such an exception for life if it is necessary. My amendment tracks that language. My amendment says, the doctor would have to show that it was necessary to prevent long-term physical health. The gentleman at the microphone, a doctor, is convinced that never, ever, ever in the whole history of the world would it be physically possible. That is a judgment he is qualified to make. But I do not believe we as a Congress ought to legislate that it is never possible. The fact is that if it is never possible, the exception will not be a very large one because it is not a subjective amendment. I will go back to what the chairman of the full committee said, as I said, a man of great integrity, he said, if there is a choice between physical damage to the mother, serious adverse physical damage, and the life of the fetus, even if we are talking about a fetus with the brain on the outside, as the gentlewoman from New York pointed out, that tragic situation, this would not be allowed.”