Tom Coburn: “I want to clarify something first. I want to read the U.S. Constitution to my colleagues. It says the Congress is to…”

“I want to clarify something first. I want to read the U.S. Constitution to my colleagues. It says the Congress is to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the seat of the government of the United States. It is absolute. It is unequivocal. The gentlewoman from the District, in her opening comments, said that the real test of a democracy is whether or not we will allow someone to make a choice that we would not make. Well, I disagree with that statement. I think the real test of a democracy is whether or not it will stick with the moral base under which it was founded. Abortion is a moral question. I understand what the Supreme Court has said. What the Supreme Court has said is wrong. It is wrong morally, it will always be held wrong morally. We heard the gentlewoman from Oregon talking about this issue, and I know she made a mistake when she said it, but she said children in utero. And that is exactly what they are. The Supreme Court, when they ruled in Roe v. Wade, they said they did not know when life began. But we do know, and we can now prove the presence of life.”