Political Quotes

“what really amazes me when you listen to the debate on this bill is the huge disconnect between the rhetoric we hear and what the bill actually before us is about. This bill is not about choice, and this bill is really not about abortion. This bill substantively, when you look at it, is about one procedure, one procedure that is so painful to an unborn baby, so barbaric, so egregious, that even the most extreme proponent of abortion has to look at it and say it shocks even their conscience. The overwhelming testimony is that a partial-birth abortion is never necessary to protect the health of the mother. This procedure is infanticide, and its cruelty stretches the limits of human decency. This issue comes down to one simple question: Is there no limit, is there no amount of pain, is there no procedure that is so extreme that we can apply to this unborn child or this fetus that we are willing as a country to say that just goes too far and we cannot allow that to happen? That is what partial-birth abortion does. It goes too far. That is why it is so important that we pass this bill today.”