Chris Smith: “Undercover videos by The Center for Medical Progress have again brought into sharp focus that some babies actually…”

“Undercover videos by The Center for Medical Progress have again brought into sharp focus that some babies actually survive abortion. Dr. Ginde, medical director of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, says: ``sometimes we get--if somebody delivers before we see them for a procedure that they are intact . . .'' That is, Madam Speaker, born alive, breathing, crying, gasping for air. One fetal tissue broker describes in the video watching a fetus that just ``fell out'' and was left to die. We have a duty to protect these vulnerable children from violence, exploitation, and death. Humanitarian due diligence requires that born- alive babies be taken to a hospital to obtain care and enhance his or her prospects of survival. Abortion clinics, to the contrary, do not have neonatal intensive care units. They are not equipped to protect those children. They are in the business of killing those children--not saving them. The grand jury in the abortionist Kermit Gosnell case said: ``Gosnell had a simple solution for unwanted babies. He killed them.'' He euphemistically called ``snipping'' the born-alive baby's spinal cord ``ensuring fetal demise.'' Last week, Gianna Jessen, as Bob Goodlatte noted earlier, an abortion survivor, told his Committee on the Judiciary she had survived a Planned Parenthood late-term, multihour abortion because ``the abortionist had not yet begun the work.…”