Chris Smith: “I thank my good friend for her very eloquent statement. Mr. Speaker, last Friday, the Trump administration announced its…”

“I thank my good friend for her very eloquent statement. Mr. Speaker, last Friday, the Trump administration announced its intention to re-assert and promulgate portions of President Ronald Reagan's modest but necessary life-affirming title 10 rule; a policy designed to ensure that taxpayers don't fund, facilitate, or promote abortion in America's $286 million per year family plan program. This new old policy comes at a time when huge majorities of Americans, over 60 percent, according to major polls, strongly oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortion. The Trump/Reagan policy, now called the Protect Life Rule, comes at a time when the high utilization of ultrasound imaging of the child in the womb has provided spectacular clarity and empathy, and even love, for the baby. First baby pictures today, the kind you put on the door of your refrigerator, are of unborn babies. Seeing is believing. No one can seriously deny anymore that unborn children are alive, dynamic, precious, a miracle, and defenseless. Title 10 was intended to be about family planning, prevention, not the hideous dismemberment or chemical poisoning or deliberate starvation and forced expulsion of a defenseless unborn baby. There is nothing benign or compassionate about killing a defenseless child. Mr.…”