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Chris Smith: today because virtually every military physician deployed around the globe, as a matter of deep conviction and…

On the recordJune 19, 1997
today because virtually every military physician deployed around the globe, as a matter of deep conviction and conscience, has refused to facilitate a 1993 Clinton Executive Order on abortion, and because the Dornan amendment was signed into permanent law a few years later on February 10, 1996, overseas military hospitals continue to be havens of healing, nuturing and disease eradication, not baby killing centers. The Harman amendment, if enacted, would turn these healing facilities into abortion mills where unborn children could be dismembered or chemically poisoned on demand. The Harman amendment makes a false distinction based not on what happens in an abortion, a baby is violently killed, but in who provides the cash. It also completely overlooks costs borne by the taxpayers to facilitate that abortion, like the provision of operating rooms, the hiring of abortionists and the procurement of poisons and potions and suction machines. This amendment says, in effect, it is okay to tear an unborn child, to rip an unborn child from limb to limb or to apply that baby with deadly poisons using a hypodermic needle, so long as somebody else seems to be footing most of the bill.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Opposing the Harman amendment regarding abortion in military hospitals during a floor speech.

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