Political Quotes

“We have heard the rhetoric once again. Members of Congress sitting here, standing here in the Capitol of the United States talking about this issue. On the other side of this amendment, mostly men, but this is not the real world. What really happens in the real world, whether it is in Kazakhstan, whether it is in Bolivia, anywhere around the world, a real woman, somebody's mother, somebody's sister, somebody's daughter, somebody's wife is pregnant and she has five children or six children, she may have lost one or two to hunger or disease already and she is pregnant again because she has no access to family planning and she is terrified and she is determined to get an abortion. She sees that as her only option, rather than starve the children that remain at home. She is going to get that abortion. She is going to get it in some dingy little concrete, damp, dank clinic somewhere out in the middle of nowhere if she is lucky, or she is going to get it in a back alley of some faraway place, terrified, unhygienic, threatening to her health. That is the world. That is happening as we speak all over the planet every day. There are two things we can do about that. We can turn away. That is what the Smith language does. 'Go away. Don't be there. Let that happen. As long as we're not part of it, nothing we can do about it. It's not our problem. It's not our mother. It's not our sister. It's not our daughter.' Or we can be there.”