Political Quotes

“my colleagues know that I do not support the Republican agenda on abortion or constitutional amendments to preclude it. In fact I have fought for a woman's right to choose. But this is an extremist amendment. This is an extremist procedure, and it is not about a woman's right to choose; it is about a baby's right to life. That is what this is about. We have protected a woman's right to choose. That is why more than 99 percent of all the abortions performed in this country are performed before the third trimester. but if we asked the doctors who performed this procedure, they will tell us that the vast majority of these procedures are performed on young, healthy women with healthy fetuses, and it is wrong. I spoke to a group of junior high students this morning. They asked me about this issue. I told them my position. They disagreed, and one of the women, young girls; these were 13- and 14-year-old girls; she said ``But what if a girl has a baby and then she decides when that baby is almost due to be delivered that she has a lot of other things in her life and the baby is going to get in her way?'' Hard to understand, but hard to sanction, hard to support. The fact is that we discredit the credibility of the pro-choice movement, the right of a woman to control her life when we support this kind of extremist position. I support this bill. The Democratic Party and the pro-choice movement ought to as well.”