Political Quotes

“I know he will feel very good about passage of this legislation. It has been a long time coming. And a lot of effort has been put behind this measure by many Members. We have accomplished something that I think is really important. People have said this is not going to stop any abortions. That may be the case. People have said this procedure is very rare. Well, I would argue that several thousand abortions a year, several thousand children being put through this brutality--I will, first, not classify thousands as rare--and as the Senator from Minnesota so eloquently said earlier today, even one should cause this Senate to stand up and say no. This is a procedure that has no place in medicine, has no place in the legal behavior of anybody here in the United States of America. We had a good debate today. We were able to defeat some amendments that were very much aimed at eliminating this ban, wiping the underlying bill out and replacing it with some language that would have, frankly, done little to nothing.”