On the recordJanuary 19, 2018
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, in 2018, doctors routinely diagnose and treat illnesses and disabilities suffered by the littlest patients: unborn babies as well as newborns. They enhance both the child's health and longevity. Abortionists, on the other hand, take a far different approach. They dismember and chemically poison children to death for profit. For decades, babies have survived later term abortions. A Philadelphia Inquirer story some thirty-seven years ago called baby survival ``the dreaded complication.'' In other words, it is a complication that a child survives. I got involved in the pro-life movement when I read an AP story of a child who survived a later term abortion. The abortion rights movement then, in 1972, before Roe v. Wade--it was in New York--were apoplectic about it because the baby survived. That should have been a reason for rejoicing. Dr. Willard Cates of the CDC was breathtakingly candid when he said: ``Live births are little known because organized medicine, from fear of public clamor and legal action, treats them more as an embarrassment to be hushed up rather than a problem to be solved. It's like turning yourself in to the IRS, he said. What is there to gain? The tendency is not to report because there are only negative incentives.'' An undercover investigator asked an abortionist: What do you do? What is your protocol when the child is born alive?…
