Bill Lee: “it is customary when rising in support of legislation to speak in gracious terms about the opportunity to vote for the…”

“it is customary when rising in support of legislation to speak in gracious terms about the opportunity to vote for the legislation in question. This is a good day for the Senate. The American people can be proud. This bill represents legislating at its very best. That is what we say. I have said it in the past myself many times. While I will soon join the majority--though maybe not the necessary supermajority--of our colleagues voting to take up the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, it is a tragedy that we should have to. That late-term abortions, abortions after children are viable and their nervous systems can feel pain, are legal in this country, is itself an affront to American democracy and a stain on America's great history. It is not the fault of the American people, who, like the rest of the civilized world, are appalled by the violent extremism of aborting viable unborn infants. Rather, in 1973, it was originally the fault of a constitutionally unhinged and scientifically illiterate Supreme Court majority. Four decades on, the fault is now fully shared by a Democratic Party so corrupted by special interest politics that it has forsaken the one principle--standing up for the little guy--that once earned them all Americans' gratitude and respect.…”