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On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
Abortion and infanticide are not examples of women's healthcare. Abortion advocates used to say they wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. Today, they want abortion to be free, casual, and for newborns. It is distressing to see the new levels of disregard they hold for new human lives and how their language has fostered such numbness to the moral evil of abortion that there is now space in society to openly promote infanticide. The Reproductive Healthcare Act, RHA, law being celebrated by pro- abortion activists in New York and Virginia's Repeal Act bill, which is supported by pro-abortion activists, legislators, and Governor Northam, are horrifying indicators of that attitude and the spreading culture of death. This time, pro-abortionists have gone farther than ever before, by their own admission. Their actions fly in the face of the limits of abortion that most Americans support and lay bare the extreme agenda of the pro-abortion movement. Not only are they bent on the systematic removal of any protections for the unborn that exist in law, now they admit that they support infanticide. The sponsor of Virginia's bill said that a baby could be ``aborted,'' i.e., murdered, as he or she is being born. This should be a moment for reflection on the reality of the atrocities being committed in the name of so-called women's healthcare.…
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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