Mark Souder: “I have been involved in the pro-life movement for many years. Not as long as Grandpa Smith who literally, along with the…”

“I have been involved in the pro-life movement for many years. Not as long as Grandpa Smith who literally, along with the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hyde), have been the crusaders in the United States Congress and have kept this issue alive and have never let anyone in this Congress, House or Senate, or the administration, forget the importance of this. This is just a huge day for him in particular. Because I have been in many meetings with leadership over the years and different things and they say, man, that Chris Smith, sometimes he just gets obsessed on this issue. And he has, literally, while he has done many other things here in Congress, has focused on this issue and helped keep Congress focused on this. I want to share a little bit of a different thought, not about the procedure itself, but some of the history behind it, because I am a little older than some of the other guys here. When the pro-life movement really started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as we became concerned that California and New York had opened up abortion procedures and were letting people from States like Indiana where people had chosen not to have abortion moved to those States, we were stunned.”