Dan Burton: “for 21 years I have been in the Congress, and for 21 years I have supported the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and…”

“for 21 years I have been in the Congress, and for 21 years I have supported the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) and the people who were fighting for the lives of the unborn, the pro-life organizations. And for 21 years I received accolades from religious organizations all over this country. In fact, the Traditional Values Coalition last year asked me to be a member of their board of directors. Well, I do not know if my colleagues can see this on television or not, but this was mailed out into my district this past week. It is a picture of a little baby sucking on a pacifier or something, and underneath it is a mother with a package of pills that are supposed to be the RU-486, the abortion pill that would cause an abortion 24 hours after conception, or after conception sometime. It says on the front of it next to this little baby, ``Will Congressman Dan Burton miss an opportunity to protect the sanctity of human life?'' I do not understand that, how a religious organization can be manipulated by the pharmaceutical industry to do this sort of thing.”