Political Quotes

“I just need to restate, we have quoted physician after physician, obstetrician after obstetrician, pro-life, pro-choice, people who have performed abortions--this is not Rick Santorum or James Inhofe or Mike DeWine or Bob Smith--these are physicians, obstetricians, who are saying that this procedure is never, never, never medically necessary to save the health or life of the mother. Never. Never. So, when we suggest we are doing this and we are denying something to women, let me also state that Dr. Hern, whom the Senator from Colorado quoted just yesterday, performs late-term abortions and will continue to perform late-term abortions if this bill passes. He believes that this is an unsafe procedure. It is not a medically recognized procedure. There is no literature on it, there is no peer review on it, there is nothing anywhere that says that this procedure is a proper procedure to use. This is not Rick Santorum talking. I wish the Members who argue would at least argue the facts. I am not speaking for me. I am quoting doctors. So let me quote doctors and describe this, because no one has described this procedure. I know, I will warn people, this is not something that I want to do. But I think the American public has to know what this procedure is and who it is performed on and at what time in the pregnancy it is performed. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps.…”