Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his leadership. And I thank the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. Rodgers) for her extraordinary efforts on behalf of the unborn. It has been, frankly, a team effort, and what a team. Mr. Speaker, the legislation under consideration by the House today is deceptively titled the Women's Health Protection Act of 2021. Abortion is not healthcare, unless one construes the precious life of an unborn child to be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a disease to be vanquished. This bill is far outside the American mainstream and goes far beyond Roe v. Wade. This bill constitutes an existential threat to unborn children and to the value of life itself. For the first time ever, by Congressional statute, H.R. 3755 would legally authorize and enable the violent death of unborn baby girls and boys by dismemberment, decapitation, forced expulsion from the womb, deadly poisons, and other methods at any time and for any reason until birth. A significant majority of Americans are deeply concerned about protecting the lives of unborn children. A 2021 Marist poll found that 65 percent of Americans want Roe v. Wade reinterpreted by either sending the issue back to the States, or to stop legalized abortion.…”