Political Quotes

“Madam President, last night, our colleague from Nebraska, Senator Ben Sasse, brought a bill to the floor to protect infants who are born alive during abortions. The legislation is simple. In the words of the bill, it finds: If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws. Any infant born alive after an abortion . . . has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn. In other words, any living, breathing baby outside of its mother's body should be protected. That is a pretty basic standard of decency. One would assume that there is no human being alive who would object to such a bill--that even my colleagues across the aisle who don't think that living, breathing unborn babies should be protected could get behind this bill--but you would be wrong because, last night, Senate Democrats objected to the consideration of this bill. They objected to the consideration of legislation to protect babies who are born alive. Let's take a step back and remember why Senator Sasse brought this bill up in the first place. Last week, the Democratic Governor of Virginia was asked about an extreme proposal from a Virginia Democrat to remove restrictions on late-term abortions. In his comments on the bill, the Virginia Governor had this to say: If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen.…”