Political Quotes

“I have a question for this body. It is not a legislative question. It starts first with just a question. It is a question for us to be able to think about, and it is a question, quite frankly, that is essential that we think about but that we don't think about very often because it is introspective, because it is personal, because it connects both science and faith and culture and background. But it is essential to who we are as people, human beings, and it is this simple question: When does life begin? I don't say it flippantly. It is a real question. It is a question that we have had as a nation now the entire time we have been a nation, and it has been decided by different States and by different people from the very beginning of our Nation. When does life begin? For some people, they would say life begins at birth, when I can see that child, when they are screaming and crying and just born, red-faced. Some people would say it is actually 10 minutes before that birth; that it is not at birth; that it is just a little bit before. There are some people who would back it up, and they would say: No, you are really a child when you are alive and you are viable--that is somewhere around 21 weeks' gestation now--that when you are viable, that is when you are really alive.…”