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Chris Smith

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Chris Smith is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on a range of issues including human rights, foreign affairs, and health care. Smith has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at improving health services and advocating for the rights of individuals both domestically and internationally. His long-standing service in Congress has made him a prominent figure in New Jersey politics.

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Feb 17, 2011

As the cannula pressed in, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that the fetus could feel the cannula, and it did not like the feeling. And then the doctor's voice broke through, startling me: 'Beam me…

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Feb 16, 2011

Abortion is always coercive for the child in the womb. An unborn baby girl or boy has no say, no right of refusal, no means to protest, no veto power whatsoever concerning a procedure that violently tears that child's body to pieces and…

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Feb 16, 2011

The problem with the United Nations Population Fund activities in China is that it strictly adheres to Chinese law. Chinese law is a one-child-per-couple policy, and it has a direct result in the clinics and in the programs that are run in…

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Feb 8, 2011

The administration seems to find its voice on human rights and democracy, it seems to me, only when events portend radical change.

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Feb 8, 2011

I am glad they are making statements--but will this lead to a matriculation from bad to worse, as we saw with the Shah of Iran?

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Feb 8, 2011

It goes to the whole issue of increasingly that U.S. corporations are enabling dictatorships.

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Jan 24, 2011

At a press conference on Thursday, President Obama offered what the Washington Post called in its editorial President Obama makes Hu Jintao look good on rights' excuses for Chinese human rights violations.

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Jan 24, 2011

Last week, Hu Jintao evaded any meaningful accountability for presiding over some of the most egregious human rights abuses.

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Jan 19, 2011

And her young child walked in and said, Mommy, who broke the baby? looking up at the shattered bodies of unborn children. So from the mouths of children, truth is spoken.

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Jan 19, 2011

Abortion is violence against children. It dismembers a child; it decapitates a child; it chemically poisons a child. RU486 actually operates in two ways. The first chemical starves the baby to death so the child in utero, the child in the…

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Jan 19, 2011

I respectfully ask that my colleagues listen to the American people and vote for H.R. 2, legislation to repeal Obamacare and, in essence, open the door to the passage of replacement legislation that offers needed, meaningful and bipartisan…

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Jan 19, 2011

Mr. Speaker, earlier today, an abortionist in Philadelphia, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, was arrested and charged in the death of a mother and seven babies who were born alive but then killed by severing their spinal cords with a pair of scissors…

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Jan 19, 2011

One of the things that we have in Congress is a large number of medical doctors, OB-GYNs and others who are overwhelmingly pro-life.

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Jan 18, 2011

The one-child-per-couple policy, which relies on forced abortion to achieve its goals.

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Jan 18, 2011

President Hu is directly responsible for the systematic detention and torture of millions of peaceful Chinese, Tibetans, and Uyghurs.

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Jan 18, 2011

These aren't nuances. These are profound issues that are raised here.

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Jan 18, 2011

It is not that you don't meet with or receive, it is how you do it.

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Jan 18, 2011

President Hu's secret police hunts down Christians, Uyghur Muslims, Falun Gong, and Tibetan Buddhists and beats them often to death.

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Jan 18, 2011

Hu Jintao presides over a gulag state, clearly a dictatorship.

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Jan 18, 2011

Conversations with President Obama must be very public.

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Jan 18, 2011

Just a glossing over of we talked about human rights, something on a list of talking points simply won't cut it.

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Jan 18, 2011

There are 100 million missing girls in China.

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Jan 17, 2011

Numerous complicated and potentially volatile issues remain to be resolved.

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Jan 17, 2011

The establishment of a permanent peace in Darfur remains a critical but elusive goal as violence intensifies despite the current talks in Doha.

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Jan 17, 2011

I personally am concerned about the return of reportedly large numbers of southerners residing in the North to the South.

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