Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I spent days, hours, a lot of time with a lot of people to draft in bill for an express purpose, not to have an abortion debate, but we will have it. This is a free and open House. You can talk about what you want to. My goal is to have a statute that will put people in jail when they do harm. When they do bad things, they suffer bad consequences. California has a statute very similar to this that has been in existence for 29 years. Go open up a phone book and see if you can have an abortion in California. You can. There are 24 states that have made it a crime to destroy an unborn child by a third party, and a woman can still get a legal abortion. This bill exempts consensual abortions because it is about criminals, not abortions. Sometime, somewhere, unfortunately, given human nature, there will be a woman assaulted where Federal jurisdiction exists and she will lose her baby, and I want to make sure that person goes to jail for taking her baby away from her when she chooses to have it. I hope you will help me do it.”