Political Quotes

“God bless the United States Supreme Court for its Roe v. Wade decision that liberated the women of this country to make their own decisions, to exercise their own consciences in the most intensely private matter of whether they should carry a pregnancy to term. Now, I recognize, of course, that there are those who hold the religious conviction that a one-celled organism--one cell, two cells-- is a fully formed human being. They are entitled to religious conviction. They are not entitled to impose that religious conviction on all the women of this country who may not share it. That is essentially the abortion debate. We are not debating abortion today, although some people would like to. We are debating this ridiculous Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act. Fifteen years ago, I stood on this floor and supported the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. I said it was unnecessary. It simply repeated existing law. It has always been the law that, if an infant is born, whether that birth was intentional or not is irrelevant, that that is a person. If you kill that infant, you are guilty of murder or manslaughter, as the case may be. You certainly may not do so intentionally. The Born-Alive Infant Protection Act did not change that. It just added superfluous language to the law. Its only purpose was to try to paint people who support the right to choose and supporters of infanticide. So we said, no, it is silly because it doesn't add anything to the law.…”