Political Quotes

“I want to make three points. One goes to the futility of this bill based on its unconstitutionality. The other goes to who gets protected. The final goes to the intolerable trade-off that this bill forces and that cannot be condoned under any circumstances. Why are we here on a bill that is unconstitutional on its face? We have not had to deal with the exception for health of the mother in the Hyde amendment and other matters because we had not focused on postviability. But the Supreme Court has been clear. I want to quote the language, that a bill is unconstitutional if it 'fails to require that maternal health be the physician's paramount concern.' That is where the Catholic church has always been. That is where all of us have always been, if ever there is that kind of tragic decision to be made. We must face that now as we have not had to because we are focusing postviability. Why are we here on a bill that protects physicians and not women?”