David Weldon: “I rise to strongly urge all of my colleagues to vote no on the Harman amendment. I can bring some perspective to this…”

“I rise to strongly urge all of my colleagues to vote no on the Harman amendment. I can bring some perspective to this issue because I was in the United States Army Medical Corps when President Reagan ordered that abortions stop in military facilities, an order that was reversed by Bill Clinton in 1993; and then this Congress corrected it. I can tell my colleagues that the men and women, the doctors and nurses in the Army Medical Corps supported the President because they did not want to have anything to do with this procedure. And the reason the people in the healing arts do not want to have anything to do with this procedure is because they know what it is. Even those who claim to be pro-choice will say to me, I would never perform one. And the reason for that is very clear. It is the destruction of a human life. We have no business in this Congress having anything to do with supporting abortion at military facilities, and I strongly urge my colleagues, let us not roll the clock back. Support the language in the law, oppose the Harman amendment.”