On the recordJanuary 18, 2018
I am here with the Senator from Oklahoma-- and we are about to be joined by the Senator from Iowa--to talk about the topic Senator Lankford just said is difficult to talk about. When you actually stand up and explain what is going on, it is hard to imagine that we still let these things happen. I would suggest to the Senator from Oklahoma that we could talk about the fact that the minds of people have changed on this issue. Almost all change their minds once we explain the two things the Congress is focused on this year. Polling on this shows that I believe 63 percent of all Americans now believe that these late-term abortions should not be allowed to occur. As Senator Lankford pointed out so well, the countries that allow this to happen are not the countries whose social policies we would want to be aligned with, including China and North Korea, which have a stated purpose of eliminating children for no other reason than just population control, and they wind up eliminating more female children than male children in that process because apparently their belief is that the male child has more economic value going forward. Why would we want to be aligned with countries that look at these issues that way or just simply think the pain should be allowed? The House has passed the pain-capable bill. Where are we now in the House on the born-alive bill? Is it to be voted on this week, or has it been voted on already?
