Political Quotes

“this is an amendment that I think really goes to the heart of this bill: Patient protection. This bill is purported to deal with trying to take care of patients. What this amendment does is make sure that every living human being is protected by this act as well as all other acts of Congress. This is a very simple amendment that says--I am quoting from the amendment-- In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the words ``person'', ``human being'', ``child'', and ``individual'', shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. That is a rather simple amendment. Obviously, I think it is an amendment that should be broadly accepted. The reason I offer this amendment is really twofold. No. 1 is the concern about how certain little children--little infants--are treated, particularly those who are born alive after an abortion, an abortion that was not successful in the sense that the child was not killed before the child was delivered outside of the mother's womb. So what we want to do is make sure those children in particular, as well as others, are treated with the same dignity and are covered by the same laws as all other people in America.”