Chris Smith: “I thank my friend for yielding and for her leadership, and for reminding us that this bill passed the House last year in…”

“I thank my friend for yielding and for her leadership, and for reminding us that this bill passed the House last year in identical form. The only thing changed are the dates, because obviously they had to be updated. It is a 12- page bill which can be very quickly read by any Member. And the only reason we have to be here is because the Senate wouldn't provide a vote on it. So the Senate just shelved it, and we are now bringing it back up on the floor. Madam Speaker, because abortion dismembers, decapitates, or chemically poisons unborn children to death--the part of abortion that my friends on the other side of this issue have a keen reluctance to not look at and to avoid, abortion methods--we know we will soon have the pain-capable legislation on the floor, and it will come to the floor. We know that children suffer excruciating pain from dismemberment. Piece by piece, a child is literally pulled apart--arms, legs, torso, and decapitation. That is the reality of abortion, Madam Speaker. Because of all of this, Americans have consistently demanded--and now in ever-growing numbers--that public funds not pay for abortion. I would point out to my colleagues that yesterday the Marist Poll found that 68 percent of Americans oppose taxpayer funding for abortions, and that includes 69 percent of women; 71 percent of the next generation, the millennials, oppose taxpayer funding for abortion. Madam Speaker, H.R. 7 will save lives.…”