Political Quotes

“What are those stories? Why are they important in this debate? I think Mrs. French said why they are important. I think they are important for the purposes of this whole idea that we need to have these abortions legal because of the health of the mother. That is important. That is why, the President said, he vetoed the bill. We have all sorts of medical evidence and testimony, and even newer testimony, testimony from both pro-choice and pro-life physicians, who say that there is absolutely no health-of-the-mother or life-of-the-mother reason for doing this procedure. In fact, it is contraindicated. It is more dangerous, according to Dr. Hern, who performs abortions and late-term abortions, to do this procedure. So we have lots of medical testimony about the cold medical aspect of it. What Mrs. French is getting to is something that is maybe more important for us who are nonphysicians, who do not, frankly, feel comfortable about making medical decisions but, hopefully, feel more comfortable about making cultural decisions. That is where we are. The cultural decision is, as Dr. Dowling said, what constitutes quality of life? We are making that decision here. If we sustain the President's veto, the children who just do not measure up, are not perfect, for that reason alone, that we should allow this procedure to continue because they are not wanted in the human family here in the United States of America.”