Vicky Hartzler: “I appreciate the gentlewoman's leadership in bringing this subject up here to the floor, to the American people, and to…”

“I appreciate the gentlewoman's leadership in bringing this subject up here to the floor, to the American people, and to our colleagues. It is deeply disturbing to see what is happening across this country, as life is no longer valued and babies are allowed to be killed, their lives snuffed out in the final moments before they are born and after they are born. Like my colleague from Kansas before me, I was shocked when I turned on my TV, very similarly--and I am sure there are people all across this country who did that--to see the Governor of New York sitting at his table signing this bill and having all these women celebrate it and then even having a building in New York City lit up in honor of this celebration. But what were they celebrating? {time} 1745 They were celebrating not only the demise of human lives in late-term abortion, when, as Dr. Marshall said, they could be born alive in a hospital and given medical care, and have a productive, full life; they could have permission to have that life snuffed out; but then to have the death, perhaps, of the woman as well, at the hands of that procedure. A lot of people are unfamiliar of how a late-term abortion is done and what these individuals in New York were celebrating. It is graphic, but people need to know what happens. The woman's uterus is dilated, and forceps are put in there, and a limb of the baby, in the womb, is grabbed hold of. Steel forceps grab hold. They find a leg or they find an arm.…”