On the recordMay 13, 2015
I appreciate the work of my colleague from North Carolina. Madam Speaker, 2 years ago today, America was awakened to the horrors of the abortion industry as abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted of murdering three innocent, newborn infants in his filthy abortion complex, and one of his former employees reported nearly 100 other living babies who were also murdered. Gosnell cut the spines of crying 5-month-old babies who survived his first attempts to kill them, and our human dignity makes it impossible to ignore that image. He further brutalized the mothers--killing two of them by drug overdose; with filthy, unsanitary instruments; and by perforating their wombs and bowels. It is no less painful for babies to have their spines snipped before birth than by Gosnell after birth. By 5 months, if not before, babies can feel pain--intense pain. It is simply barbaric to allow Gosnell or anyone else to rip these babies apart, limb by limb, whether they are in or out of their mothers' wombs. That is why we must take a stand today to protect the defenseless unborn and pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
