Chris Smith: “Why would Planned Parenthood and a virtual who's who of abortion activists in America so vehemently oppose the Unborn…”

“Why would Planned Parenthood and a virtual who's who of abortion activists in America so vehemently oppose the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and promote a gutting substitute in its stead? Why is it that on the floor of the House on a very pleasant Thursday afternoon that so many intelligent and talented and gifted lawmakers, to whom so much has been given, are going to such great lengths to deny basic protections in law for an unborn child who has been shot, beaten, stabbed or otherwise mauled by an attacker? Could it be that America's abortion culture, a culture of death, has so numbed our hearts and dulled our minds that we have become incapable or unwilling of recognizing the obvious? Could it be denial? Amazingly, as a result of breathtaking breakthroughs in medicine, unborn children are today often treated as patients in need of curative procedures and healing, just like any other patient. Is the concept of unborn child as victim really so hard to grasp, even when we are not talking about abortion, but assault by a mother? Is it lacking in logic or courage or common sense or compassion? Have the soothing voices of denial by credentialed people, especially in medicine and the media, ripped off our capacity to think? Has the horrific specter of 40 million poisoned or dismembered babies, legally enabled by Roe v. Wade, robbed us of our capability to see and to understand and to empathize?”