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On the recordMarch 7, 1996
we have just been called extremists, and list me in the front ranks of the extreme, if by earning that appellation I can defend the innocent unborn. It seems to me 1\1/2\ million abortions every year is pretty extreme. The U.S. Supreme Court has held in a Georgia case that you may not execute the rapist. The words of the court were that is a disproportionate penalty for the crime; disproportionate, do not execute the rapist, but you can execute the unborn in the womb. Nobody says a rape victim has an easy matter of it. That is tragic, and it is heart-rending. But why visit on the innocent unborn life execution that the court will not let you do to the rapist? That is a tragedy, and it calls for love and compassion and help, and we ought to provide that, but do not add insult to injury by executing the most innocent of human beings, an unborn child. I do not think we should be proud of the fact that we have a million and a half abortions. But most of the people arguing for the Lowey amendment I find supported the partial-birth abortion process. That is what is extreme.
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Henry Hyde
Illinois

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Addressing the issue of abortion and the moral implications of executing unborn children.

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