Chris Smith: “I thank my good friend Mr. Nugent for yielding and thank him for his leadership. Madam Speaker, America has changed and…”

“I thank my good friend Mr. Nugent for yielding and thank him for his leadership. Madam Speaker, America has changed and today is more pro-life than ever. By ever-increasing majorities, especially among our young people, the megatrend is to protect the child in the womb from the insidious violence of abortion and to protect women from the trauma, often lifelong emotional harm, of procuring an abortion. This paradigm shift, reflected in all the major polls, is the direct result of pro-life education, pregnancy care centers, pro-life laws, including funding bans, informed consent and parental involvement statutes, the molding of consciences by the faith-based community and advances in ultrasound that have shattered the pernicious pro-abortion myth that the baby in the womb isn't a human person or alive or of innate value. Even Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director Abby Johnson was shocked into her new pro-life view by witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion of a 13-week-old baby who was dismembered and pulverized in real time right before her eyes at that Texas clinic. But perhaps the greatest reason for the huge shift in public opinion in favor of life is the growing number of extraordinarily brave post- abortive women who deeply regret their abortions and today are silent no more. One post-abortive woman told a group outside the U.S.…”