Chris Smith: “I think it is becoming abundantly clear to a growing number of Americans that abortion is violence against children.…”

“I think it is becoming abundantly clear to a growing number of Americans that abortion is violence against children. Abortion methods rip and tear innocent, unborn babies to pieces. Abortion methods dismember children with razor blades attached to suction machines. Abortion methods include pumping and injecting deadly poisons into the baby for the express purpose of killing the child. Abortion methods include killing the baby as he or she is actually being born. The partial birth abortion method, as we now know, entails jamming scissors into the child's skull and then vacuuming the brains out. Abortion is violence against children, Mr. Speaker. Thus, it seems very clear to me that secretly transporting teenagers across State lines to procure abortions in a State with no parental notification or parental consent compounds the violence by exploiting the vulnerable minor. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues may recall that when the partial birth abortion ban was debated on this floor many proabortion organizations, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America and their research arm, the Guttmacher Institute, wrote a letter saying that there were and I quote, ``fewer than 500'' partial birth abortions per year in the country, in the entire country. That statement, just like other statements that they made, has turned out to be totally bogus. It turned out to be a lie. One leading proabortionist even said that he ``lied through his teeth'' on this issue.”