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On the recordMay 8, 2014
1 year ago, our justice system gave us a new definition for life. Convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell, the abortionist who for decades worked in Philadelphia, who personally killed hundreds of children in the womb, who personally kept body parts in bags and bottles that were scattered all around his clinic, he was not tried for that. Those things were all permitted. One year ago this week that court clarified their definition of ``life.'' It wasn't about conception. It wasn't about age. It wasn't about ability to survive. It was about distance. ``Life'' was defined by distance for them. Kermit Gosnell had the audacity to induce the labor of pregnant women and then take the child outside the womb, move them about 3 feet away, whether on his hands or set them on a table, and cut their spinal cord, sitting on the table, where they would die either on his hands or on the table. He moved them 3 feet. What tortured logic is that to say it is not a child in the womb, but it is a child if you move them 3 feet? This is the United States of America. Life is not about distance. Life is about children. Let's choose life. ____________________
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma
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May 8, 2014

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