Joe Pitts: “Thank you, Congressman Smith, for your leadership on this issue here in Congress, very, very wonderful, inspiring…”

“Thank you, Congressman Smith, for your leadership on this issue here in Congress, very, very wonderful, inspiring leadership to all of us who've been engaged in this, on this issue for years in State legislatures like Pennsylvania and across the other parts of the country. But U.S. Route 30 runs through the heart of my district, in Lancaster County and Chester County, in Pennsylvania. You follow that road all the way into Philadelphia, you'll pass a nondescript, triangle-shaped brick building at 38th Street. And for years, Dr. Kermit Gosnell operated a factory of death in this location, just across the street from a church. This week, Gosnell is on trial for multiple homicides that demonstrate just how thin the line between abortion and murder is in this country. Dr. Kermit Gosnell spent years taking advantage of vulnerable women, offering illegal and dangerous abortions in exchange for cash. He also operated a pill mill, selling prescription drugs to anyone in the neighborhood with enough cash. He sold death to the poor, and he lived handsomely for years. State authorities never darkened the door of what he called a ``clinic'' until a mother died of an overdose during one of Gosnell's procedures. He used clinical terminology to pave over the fact that in many cases he was killing a child who had already been born.…”