I have been around here for some time; this is my 28th year. Every year we talk about the military budget and military hospitals. I am convinced that the purpose of a military hospital is for military medical readiness and to save lives; to save lives, not to take life. Now, we have heard lots of words about the pregnant woman and her discomfort, and I sympathize with that situation very much so, but not one scintilla, not one thought, has been given to the unborn child. How many of my colleagues have held a newborn baby in their arms? That is what we are talking about. We are talking about abortion, not reproductive rights. Reproductive. There is nothing reproductive about an abortion. It is contra-reproductive. An abortion kills a little baby once it has begun its life. There is no choice involved except a dead baby or a live baby. That is the choice that is involved. Now, we know what an abortion is, even though we want to euphemize it by saying reproductive choice, the product of conception. The little baby is not killed; it undergoes demise. We know all of the beautiful euphemisms.…
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