Arizona 2006 Senate Debate: on Abortion

Jim Pederson: Kyl proposed an abortion amendment with zero exceptions

KYL: Some of his ads are downright false, distortions even according to the Arizona print media. In one ad he suggests I want to make it a crime for women to have an abortion. I don't. I never did. There's never been a bill in the Congress to do that. Why would you take such a sensitive and emotional subject and put that in an ad that absolutely lies about somebody's career?

PEDERSON: You sponsored two constitutional amendments to prohibit abortion. You could have made an exception for rape. You could have made an exception for incest. You could have made an exception for the health of the mother. You didn't. If those constitutional amendments had passed, all of those provisions would have been contained in the constitution. We told the truth in that ad.

Jon Kyl: I have never voted to make abortion illegal

KYL: Some of his ads are downright false, distortions even according to the Arizona print media. In one ad he suggests I want to make it a crime for women to have an abortion. I don't. I never did. There's never been a bill in the Congress to do that. Why would you take such a sensitive and emotional subject and put that in an ad that absolutely lies about somebody's career?

PEDERSON: You sponsored two constitutional amendments to prohibit abortion. You could have made an exception for rape. You could have made an exception for incest. You could have made an exception for the health of the mother. You didn't. If those constitutional amendments had passed, all of those provisions would have been contained in the constitution. We told the truth in that ad.