Political Quotes

“in the prior exchange, the failure of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Bilirakis) to indicate what an abortion is was an important concession because in effect it says an abortion is anything that a provider says it is. It makes this legislation completely untenable. What we are witnessing is the umpteenth attempt of the Republicans to invade Roe v. Wade. I have to give the majority credit, though; the majority is determined to deny a woman the right to control her own body by any means necessary. That is why they keep coming to the floor with these provisions. Yes, this bill is about discrimination, discrimination against women and discrimination against the States. They wrap themselves in a conscience clause cloak. We could never have gotten this far if we did not have ironclad conscience clause protection in our law. I have got two great Catholic universities in my district, Georgetown University, with which I am personally associated as a tenured law professor, and Catholic University. Georgetown University Provident Hospital does not have the slightest doubt that they and their health care services already are strenuously covered by the existing conscience clause. This is not a conscience clause. This is a cop-out clause. What it does essentially is to open the floodgates. The first to take advantage of this clause are going to be the health care plans and the HMOs.…”