On the recordJuly 23, 2015
It is painful to hear the words in the recently released video showing Planned Parenthood trafficking in body parts. At one point, the doctor talks about a customer wanting ``lower extremities,'' that is legs in everyday language. ``I don't know what they are going to do with it. Maybe they want muscle,'' she says. These are legs that will never run to a mom or a dad, never run to a brother or a sister, never run to a spouse, never run to protect another child. It has been 42 years since the Supreme Court did what Justice White called an exercise of raw judicial power. Since then, we have seen more than 55 million abortions in this country; yet we are still shocked by what these videos show. This is a teaching moment, Mr. Speaker. There is a lot of pain implicit in these videos, pain for kids, pain for moms, pain for dads and families. Perhaps these videos can become the moment where our Nation can begin to heal that pain. Stopping taxpayer dollars flowing to organizations responsible for this horror is a good place to start that healing. ____________________
