Political Quotes

“this evening, the U.S. Senate will be voting on the most extreme legislation on abortion ever considered in the history of this body. The deceptively named ``Women's Health Protection Act'' is more accurately called the ``Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act.'' No wonder it is being held on a Monday, as we call these the flyback votes, in the midst of this crisis in Ukraine--that it be tonight that they want to slip in this vote, the most extreme abortion vote ever--ever--considered in the history of this body. This bill would force every single State to be a late-term abortion State. This bill allows abortion up until the very moment of birth itself. That is simply infanticide. This legislation goes beyond codifying the wrongly decided Roe v. Wade case and would ban many lifesaving State laws currently in effect that limit abortion and enjoy the broad support from Americans, I might add. When our Founding Fathers laid out the founding principles of America in the Declaration of Independence, they talked about life; they talked about liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The bottom line is, you can't have liberty and you can't have happiness, or even the pursuit of it, without first having that inalienable right given by God, and that is the right to life.…”