Political Quotes

“I just suggest the American Medical Association and the other hundreds of doctors understand the point that seems to elude the Members of this Chamber. By outlawing this procedure they are, in fact, protecting the health of the mother, because this is an unhealthy procedure, this is a dangerous procedure. This procedure, as said by over 500 physicians ``is never medically necessary, in order to preserve a woman's life, health or future fertility, to deliberately kill an unborn child in the second and third trimester, and certainly not by mostly delivering the child before putting him or her to death.'' I will quote another obstetrician/gynecologist, Dr. Camilla Hersh: Any proponent of such a dangerous procedure is at least seriously misinformed about medical reality or at worst so consumed by narrow minded ``abortion-at-any-cost'' activism to be criminally negligent. What we are doing here is, in fact, advocating for the life health of the mother by banning a procedure which is a rogue procedure, not performed at hospitals, performed at abortion clinics, not even performed by obstetricians, invented by someone who is not an obstetrician. That is why the AMA wrote to me yesterday supporting H.R. 1122 as it now appears on the floor of the U.S. Senate saying: Thank you for the opportunity to work with you toward restriction of a procedure we all agree is not good medicine.…”