Michele Bachmann: “This is the first issue that all of us have to deal with, the issue of life, going all the way back to the Declaration…”

“This is the first issue that all of us have to deal with, the issue of life, going all the way back to the Declaration of Independence. If you look at the Declaration, the inalienable rights, the rights that no government can give, that no government can take away, that were given to each one of us, a very personal right by our Creator, the first one is life. And that's why this issue is central in every debate that we have--how will we as an American government and society deal with vouchsafing life. Because in the Declaration it goes on to say that governments were instituted to secure the inalienable right of life. That's why we're here--to make sure that life is a value that we uphold and that we save. I appreciate so much the chart that the gentlelady has put up to demonstrate that 70 percent of Americans oppose funding for abortions. That's what we're going to see in this health care bill going forward. I'm sure my colleague, Dr. Roe, had addressed that very well: that Americans don't want to have their tax dollars pay for other people's abortions and have their consciences violated.”