Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for her extraordinary leadership. Madam Speaker, injustice need not be forever. By affirming the Mississippi pro-life law, the Supreme Court can take a powerful step toward inclusion, justice, and respect for the weakest and most vulnerable. Shockingly, since the infamous 1973 abortion decisions, more than 62.5 million unborn children have been killed--a staggering loss of children's lives that equates with the entire population of Italy. Abrogating both duty and due diligence, the 1973 Court wrote: ``We need not resolve the difficult question of when human life begins.'' Sidestepping that threshold and giving no benefit of the doubt to the child, they went on to legalize abortion on demand as if the baby were a tumor to be excised or a disease to be vanquished. For decades, right up to this very moment, abortion advocates have gone to extraordinary lengths to ignore, trivialize, and cover up the battered baby victim. But today, thanks to ultrasound, unborn babies are more visible than ever before. This begs the question: Why does dismembering a child with sharp knives, pulverizing a child with powerful suction devices, or chemically poisoning a baby with any number of toxic chemicals fail to elicit so much as a scintilla of empathy, mercy, or compassion?…”