this is more than a legal or a constitutional question, although it certainly is that. It is a moral question. I do not think anybody who claims to be human can be indifferent to the proposition that a tiny, vulnerable, defenseless unborn life is being crushed, is being destroyed, is being exterminated in an abortion and be indifferent to that. That is the one missing factor in all of the reasoned arguments on the proabortion side. Mr. Chairman, they talk about women's rights, they talk about safe abortion, but they totally forget the invisible element, the unborn child. That is not a nothing. The term safe abortion is an oxymoron. It is terminal for the unborn child. What is safe about being sucked out of a mother's womb and thrown away with the trash? Abortions are evil. They are not a benign neutral act. They take a human life that has been guaranteed the right to life in our Declaration of Independence as inalienable. Why is that erased in all of our contemplation? Do not euphemize reproductive rights. There is nothing reproductive about abortion. That is reproductive denial. Vote for Dornan against DeLauro.
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Addressing the moral implications of abortion during a House floor debate.
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