Political Quotes

“today, we will be voting on two very important bills: the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. I would like to thank my colleagues Senator Graham and Senator Sasse for their leadership on these bills, and I would like to thank Senator McConnell, for his efforts to bring these bills to the floor for a vote. First, I want to talk about Senator Sasse's Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill which I have cosponsored that would ensure that a baby who survives an abortion will receive the same treatment as any child naturally born at the same age, without prescribing any particular form of treatment. That is just morally right, and I don't see why there would be any disagreement about it. This bill is not even about abortion; it is about infanticide. Twenty-eight years ago, I came down here to tell the story of Ana Rosa Rodriguez. Here is what I said: Mr. Chairman, there is a big misconception regarding abortion and the issue of women and their right to protect their bodies. It is not that right that I object to, but the right that is given them to kill an unborn fetus--an unborn child. I want to share with you a story that my colleague, Chris Smith told some time ago on this very floor. Ana Rosa Rodriguez is an abortion survivor. At birth she was a healthy 3 pound baby girl except for her injury--she was missing an arm. Ana survived a botched abortion.…”