Arlen Specter: “I am introducing two bills designed to bring Americans together on one of the most controversial, if not the most…”

“I am introducing two bills designed to bring Americans together on one of the most controversial, if not the most controversial matter facing the United States domestically today, and that is the question of abortion, pro-choice, pro-life. While we cannot achieve agreement on all aspects of that underlying controversy, I believe it is possible to make enormous steps forward on the issue of abstinence; that is, to try to curtail premarital sex, especially among teenagers, which results in unintended pregnancies, and to promote adoption through tax credits, to try to encourage those who are in the situation of unintended pregnancy to carry through to term. This legislation would support an authorization for $75 million annually to have abstinence education.”