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Trent Franks: “To stand by in silence while the most helpless of all children are tortuously and agonizingly dismembered day after day…”

On the recordMay 14, 2013
To stand by in silence while the most helpless of all children are tortuously and agonizingly dismembered day after day after day, year after year, Mr. Attorney General, is quite honestly a heartless disgrace that really cannot be described by the vocabulary of man.
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Trent Franks
Arizona

Editor's note · Context

Franks criticizes the lack of enforcement of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

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