Political Quotes

“I rise to ask my colleagues once again to join me in expressing the sense of the Senate that governments at all levels have a compelling interest in preventing and punishing the practices of late-term abortions under unsafe, unsanitary, and illegal circumstances. It seems as though every day we find new evidence that this problem is much bigger than we could have feared previously. Earlier this week, of course, Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for severing the spines of newborn infants, and one count of involuntary manslaughter for the death of a pregnant mother who came to see Dr. Gosnell for care. The shocking details of the Gosnell case have, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to cover it up, become national news. The abortion industry has spun into action, trying to isolate and condemn Gosnell as an aberration. Planned Parenthood cited Gosnell's ``appalling crimes.'' NARAL called him a ``butcher.'' On this very floor last week, Gosnell's actions were decried by pro-choice Senators as ``reprehensible'' and ``an outrage . . . a violation of everything we hold dear.'' But Kermit Gosnell has only been sentenced to life in prison and condemned as a monster for doing things for which--had he done them just a few seconds earlier or a few centimeters in a different direction--those same voices might have hailed him as a hero and not as a monster.…”