Political Quotes

“He mentioned a case in his previous article in June of a woman who had an abortion and used that sort of to justify late-term abortions and particularly the partial-birth abortion procedure. He revisits that in the beginning of the article and says he still agreed this woman who did not have a partial-birth abortion but had a late-term abortion, was right to do so. But he said, ``What seemed justifiable to me last June, does not now.'' He said: I was led to believe that these late-term abortions were extremely rare and performed only when the life of the mother was in danger or the fetus irreparably deformed. You heard in the House of Representatives last week when they were debating this issue and you will hear over and over again from the advocates of partial-birth abortions that this is only done in extreme medical emergencies when fetuses have no chance of survival outside of the womb and that they are done very rarely. Mr. Cohen says: I was wrong. I didn't know at the time, of course, and maybe the people who supplied my data, the usual pro-choice groups.”