Political Quotes

“I hear the cry for legislation to deal with a situation that none of us want to happen, a situation where harm comes to a woman while she is pregnant. I hear the cry under the veil that we as Members of Congress have to stand up for pregnant women, and we have to do things so nothing happens to pregnant women. But legislation is not the only answer to help pregnant women who are harmed. There are other ways in which we can help them. In fact, the Violence Against Women Act legislation could have helped women in this circumstance. But be that as it may, as we are debating legislation, one of the jobs of a good legislator is to make sure that when we pass the legislation that we know it will stand up to judicial scrutiny. For those who are the proponents of this legislation, if they only look to it, they will recognize that it has problems to the extent that a judiciary would send this back. As a prosecutor, I tried my darnedest to never take a case into court if I knew the law had a problem, because how could I explain to the victim that I prosecuted the case with the knowledge that the law had a problem that would not stand appellate scrutiny?”