Political Quotes

“I wonder if one would imagine with me an infant in a nursery in a hospital on life support. There is a terrorist bomb or an arsonist fire, and that infant and several others are killed. Can one imagine an argument that says that those babies that were not on life support were murdered but the baby on life support was not murdered? Mr. Speaker, the preborn baby, in its mother's womb, is simply on life support through the umbilical cord. When a pregnant woman is killed, clearly two lives are snuffed out. There are two murders. When a woman is assaulted, sometimes with the intention of killing that preborn child who is simply on life support in her womb, indistinguishable from a baby just born, clearly that also is murder. This legislation is long past due. Defeat the amendment. Support the base bill.”