Chris Smith: “At a time when the government is shut down, we are alive and well and running in the typically bipartisan way that you…”

Abortion is not healthcare unless one construes the life of an unborn child to be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a disease to be vanquished. I appeal to my colleagues: Don't ignore or trivialize the battered victim in the womb…

They will drop out. You have priced them out of higher education.

I would add that the gentlewoman's husband, Scott, is a tremendous leader and head of National Right to Life.

We must act now, and we must act decisively. The lives of so many lie in the balance.