Political Quotes

“What an expression of love, compassion, and faith we just heard, the child who was thought to be impossible; and what a tribute to parents and a mother who just love so unconditionally. Mr. Speaker, in 2012, two bioethicists, Dr. Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, published an outrageous paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics justifying the deliberate, premeditated murder of newborn babies during the first hours, days, and even weeks after birth. The ethicists said: When circumstances occur after birth that would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. In other words, the same conditions that would justify the killing of a baby in utero justifies the killing of that baby even when she is born. These two individuals made it clear that because the child does not have dreams about the future at birth, that that somehow is a disqualifier to personhood. The infanticide that they proposed, Mr. Speaker, is here. After-birth abortion is here. A couple weeks ago, New York Governor Cuomo signed into law a bill to allow abortion until birth and even removes penalties for infanticide. Other States, including Virginia, Rhode Island, and New Mexico, have similar anti-child statutes under consideration. The violent assault on children, Mr. Speaker, must end.…”