Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Millions of people have viewed videos of representatives of the organization Planned Parenthood, which performs some 40 percent of all abortions each year. Those videos, recorded undercover, include discussions of instances in which during the course of an attempted abortion a baby is born ``intact.'' As one doctor caught on tape said: ``Sometimes . . . if someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure, then they''--the babies--``are intact. But that's not what we go for.'' Another business executive said: ``If you had intact cases, which we've done a lot, we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety.'' A procurement manager says on a video: ``I literally have had women come in and they'll go in the OR''--the operating room--``and they're back out in 3 minutes, and I'm going, `What's going on?' `Oh, yeah. The fetus was already in the vaginal canal whenever we put her in the stirrups. It just fell out.' '' A former employee of the same company told investigators that she was shown the results of one abortion by a doctor, and she recalls: ``This is the most gestated fetus and the closest thing to a baby I've seen . . . and she''--the doctor--``taps the heart and it starts beating . . . The nodes were still firing and I don't know if that means it's technically dead or it's alive. It had a face. It wasn't completely torn up. Its nose was very pronounced. It had eyelids . . .…”