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On the recordJanuary 11, 2023
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding. Madam Speaker, I especially thank the gentlewoman from Missouri, Ann Wagner, for leading this effort for so many years. I am so proud to rise in support of this bill that is about human dignity; and, frankly, it is about common sense. The idea, Madam Speaker, that if a baby is born alive outside the womb that that baby in America could be killed and it be called abortion and not murder defies logic. It defies humanity. Over the years Kat Cammack has had a discharge petition to bring this bill to the floor. So many others all across the country have asked Congress to address this issue, and the first thing that people express is shock. They say: Wait a minute. If a baby is born outside the womb alive, how could you then kill that baby and that be legal? How is that not already murder? I questioned how it wasn't myself, and yet in a number of States it is legal, and it is happening today. This is America. Madam Speaker, you see this in countries like China and North Korea. There aren't many countries in the world that allow this practice. The United States should not be one of those countries. This is inhumane. This transcends the abortion debate. Before the Dobbs decision, this bill still would have been constitutional to pass because we are not talking about 20 weeks, we are talking about the baby born alive outside the womb.…
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Steve Scalise
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