Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this is a difficult issue for so many people because it is intensely personal for so many people. We understand full well the grief some families have when this topic comes up because there are millions of men and women who they know their child has been aborted. We get that. We want to have incredible compassion for them as they struggle through some of the most difficult decisions of their life. We understand that when they go to the mall and they watch a small child laugh in the food court of the mall, they wonder in the back of their head, ``Would that have sounded like my child when they laughed?'' We get the grief they live with for the rest of their life as they process through what some physician told them was tissue, but in their heart they know was a child. This is a nation that can set some basic principles to help those individuals, to promote adoption, to be able to encourage those families and help walk alongside them. We are good at grace and compassion as a nation. We can continue to be better at it. One of the ways we have to be able to express that is for the most vulnerable, for those children who have yet to be born. I would like to invite the Senator from Montana to also join in this colloquy. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Perdue). The Senator from Montana.”