Chris Smith: “In a Florida abortion clinic, Sycloria Williams delivered a live baby girl at 23 weeks. The clinic owner took the baby…”

“In a Florida abortion clinic, Sycloria Williams delivered a live baby girl at 23 weeks. The clinic owner took the baby, who was gasping for air, cut her umbilical cord, threw her into a biohazard bag, and put the bag in the trash. Heartbroken, Sycloria later had a funeral for her baby girl, who she named Shanice. In Sycloria's home State of Florida, in just 1 year, in 2017, 11 babies were born alive during abortions. Shockingly, only 6 States-- Florida, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Texas--currently require reporting of children born alive who survive abortion. Why the coverup? Dr. Willard Cates, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Abortion Surveillance Unit, 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,'' he goes on, ``for an audit. What is there to gain? The tendency is not to report because there are only negative incentives.'' Mr. Speaker, I would remind my colleagues that Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, one of the few who got caught, was convicted for murder, for killing children who were born alive after attempting abortions. The grand jury described it this way: ``Gosnell had a simple solution for unwanted babies he delivered: He killed them. He didn't call it that.…”