Political Quotes

“I thank Senator DeWine for yielding. I will be brief. We just rejected the idea Roe v. Wade rights should be used by criminals to avoid prosecution for their criminal activity that results in the mother being denied to have a child. Roe v. Wade is an honest, genuine debate that exists in this land. Eighty percent of Americans, when polled, believe if a criminal takes the right to have a child away from a mother, they ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for what has happened to that family--damage to the mother and damage to the unborn baby. Professor Walter Dellinger, a former adviser to President Clinton, said: . . . although he is a strong advocate for a woman's right to choose abortion, he sees no major problem with fetal-homicide laws. ``I don't think they undermine Roe v. Wade,'' he said. ``The legislatures can decide that fetuses are deserving of protection without having to make any judgment that the entity being protected has freestanding constitutional rights. I just think that proposals like this ought to be considered on their own merit.'' That is all we are asking.”