Political Quotes

“I rise today as a physician concerned about women, concerned about women's health, concerned about safe medical practices. I rise to strongly support the ban on partial-birth abortions. My colleagues in this Chamber already know my position that this procedure called a partial-birth abortion is both medically unnecessary and unnecessarily brutal and inhumane. Mr. President, every baby deserves to be treated with respect, with dignity and with compassion. This procedure, which has been banned in a bipartisan, in a historic way by the U.S. Senate and by the House of Representatives, very deeply offends our sensibilities as human beings. I need to make very clear that those of us who oppose this very specific, very explicitly defined procedure care very deeply about women and about the horrific situations they sometimes face, but how can we answer to our children, to our families, to our constituents back home and to ourselves if we continue to allow babies to be aborted through this partial-birth abortion procedure, especially--and I think in some of the remarks earlier today it was made clear--especially in light that this procedure, this specific, well-defined procedure is medically unnecessary.”