Ann Wagner: “I thank the gentleman, my friend, Congressman Duffy, for leading this effort and leading this Special Order today. Mr.…”

“I thank the gentleman, my friend, Congressman Duffy, for leading this effort and leading this Special Order today. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my continued outrage at, now, two abhorrent videos that have been released in the last week in which two Planned Parenthood senior doctors describe the process by which they and their coworkers kill unborn children and harvest their organs for sale. Like many Americans, I was shocked not only by what I learned about Planned Parenthood's standard practices, but by the cold, callous indifference in which its medical leadership detailed the barbaric murder of society's most vulnerable children. In the United States, we provide protections for the least among us in numerous ways from medical research, to welfare programs, to healthcare assistance; yet here, we stand on the floor of the United States House of Representatives to discuss whether the sale of human body parts harvested from aborted children violates basic human dignity and perhaps even the law. Mr. Speaker, the question that strikes me today is not whether this practice is immoral or illegal--for surely no Member of Congress or of humanity can, in good conscience, claim that we support these heinous activities--instead, I am left considering what could we have done or perhaps what should we have done to protect women and innocent children from this outrageous practice. I am left to think what kind of Nation allows these heinous acts to continue.…”