Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, life, life is a precious gift. Life is a precious gift from God. Partial-birth abortion is a gruesome procedure that has no place in our society, has no place in a civilized society. Partial-birth abortions are performed in the U.S. They are performed thousands of times annually on healthy babies and healthy mothers. In 1997, Ron Fitzimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, estimated that the method was used 3,000 to 5,000 times annually. 'In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along,' Fitzimmons said. Not that polls are all that important on this issue, it is what is right or wrong, but in January of 2003 a Gallup Poll found that 70 percent of Americans favored a law making it illegal to perform a partial-birth abortion except in cases necessary to save the life of the mother. H.R. 760 would prohibit the partial-birth abortion procedure unless it is medically necessary to save the life of the mother.”