Chris Smith: “These diseases are not only debilitating for their victims but far too often fatal when untreated.”

It is the absolute critical node on their path to sovereignty, security, and sustained democracy.

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…

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.