Chris Smith: “I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, doctors, today, routinely diagnose and treat a myriad of illnesses and…”

“I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, doctors, today, routinely diagnose and treat a myriad of illnesses and diseases suffered by societies' littlest patients--unborn babies and newborns--significantly enhancing both the children's health and longevity. Abortionists, on the other hand, take a different approach. They dismember and chemically kill unborn children for profit. For decades, babies have survived later term abortions. As far back as 37 years ago, a Philadelphia Inquirer story called baby survival ``the dreaded complication.'' Dr. Willard Cates of the Center for Disease Control 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 than a problem to be solved. It is like turning yourself in to the IRS for an audit. What is there to gain? The tendency is not to report because there are only negative incentives.'' Of course, the tendency is not to report. When an undercover investigator asked another abortion provider from Planned Parenthood about the procedure for checking for signs of life in a baby born after an attempted abortion, the abortionist responded by saying: ``I mean, the key is, you need to pay attention to who is in the room. . . .…”