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Chris Smith: 25 years after Roe v. Wade, I believe it is time for a serious reality check and a compassion check as well. Supreme…

On the recordJuly 23, 1998
25 years after Roe v. Wade, I believe it is time for a serious reality check and a compassion check as well. Supreme Court imposed abortion-on-demand in America has claimed the lives of more than 36 million boys and girls and, although grossly underreported, has resulted in death, injury, and emotional trauma to women. It is time to come to grips with the truth and to ask the question why we seem to care so little about a whole generation of babies lost. Abortion methods, Madam Speaker, are violence against children. Abortion methods dismember and chemically poison kids. There is absolutely nothing compassionate about dousing a baby with superconcentrated salt water or lethal injections into the baby's beating heart, or hacking the baby to pieces with surgical knives. Why do so many of us live in denial concerning this pernicious violence against children? Today, Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion lobby is asking the House to sustain a misguided veto so as to permit and empower abortionists to continue to murder children as they are being born.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Addressing the impact of abortion and advocating against it during a House floor debate.

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