Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, whenever this subject gets brought up, it is like we just go into la-la land about what the facts are and what the intentions are. For a female student that is in college, on campus, she needs options. She needs to understand what her options are. She needs information to do that. This legislation simply affords a broader amount of information and choices for her to do that. How the folks on the other side could call this some kind of limitation or somehow against women just continues to foster the disinformation for 40 years about this subject. Indeed, it is life that we are talking about. For women, we see in some of these cases, as many as 60 percent, they have gone on to have abortions because they believe that is the only option they have. They have been, in some cases, bullied into it, or closed off from other information. Sixty percent would have preferred to give birth had they known they had the security, the options, and maybe not even be discriminated against on campus to do so. No, the left is always concerned about having the maximum number of abortions. It is appalling. Students that are pregnant deserve support and dignity and the options that help them fulfill whatever their goals are going to be, whatever their life course is going to be. That isn't done by hiding information and hiding options from them.…”