Chris Smith: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do believe that there are deep concerns about the loss of life and what it means…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do believe that there are deep concerns about the loss of life and what it means demographically, both here and all over the world. I mean, in places like China, sex selection abortion has claimed the lives of so many of the girl children that there are tens of millions of men who will never marry because the women simply have been exterminated through sex selection abortion. I have held a number of congressional hearings--I have chaired them-- where we have talked about the disparity between boys and girls. One estimate posited there are 62 million missing girls in China alone. One of my witnesses said that if you look at all the women that have been killed in Asia through sex selection abortion alone, and it is worldwide, it equals, equates with the number of all the women and girl children living in the United States of America. I mean, that is a horrific crime, in my opinion, against women. And the disparity in male to female that is a consequence leads to other horrific consequences, like human trafficking. As my good friend knows, I am the prime author of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and four other laws that combat human trafficking, including the most recently signed, the Frederick Douglass anti-human trafficking law signed by President Trump just a few months ago. I am the author of those bills; and we watch very closely what is happening all over the world.…”