Political Quotes

“I am outraged at the use of old-fashioned abortion politics to get at a serious problem. Let me indicate just how serious the problem is. I participated recently in a press conference called by the American College of Nurses and Midwives here in the District of Columbia, now published in an AMA Journal. In the District of Columbia, autopsies had been performed on pregnant women. What was discovered was that there were 13 homicides of pregnant women that had not been reported along with maternal deaths. These 13 unreported deaths accounted for 38 percent of pregnancy-associated deaths. Now, these women had several things in common. They tended to be very young, 15 to 19; they were unmarried; they were murdered early in their pregnancy. There was no category in the FBI or accepted among the States to report these deaths. I have written to the FBI to ask that a category be created, and I have written to the GAO asking that a study be done of such deaths throughout the country, because clearly what we found here is nationwide. What is our answer this afternoon? Our answer is a clearly unconstitutional bill that defines a fetus as a person, in direct in-your-face violation of Roe v. Wade. There is a real problem out there. That problem is here in the Nation's capital. It is in your districts as well.”