Political Quotes

“I want to address a couple issues and then make a closing argument. One issue I want to address is the point Senator Boxer made, that there were 5,000 deaths of women because of abortions prior to Roe v. Wade. Let me give a quote from the former medical director of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, NARAL: How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In NARAL, we generally emphasized the frame of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always '5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.' I confess that I knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible. So, obviously, it was not just used to get the law eliminated. It continues to be used to substantiate the law's existence. And what does this law do? It does many things. Let me summarize by mentioning two. It takes from the American people the people's legitimate right to determine this crucial, moral issue.”