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On the recordSeptember 18, 2015
I stand before you today not as a Republican and not as a Member of this House, but as a fellow human being, and I wonder: How did we get to this point? How do we somehow compromise in our mind what it is that we are talking about today? I want you to disconnect from any organization or agency and concentrate on the act of what is taking place. This is not a blob of tissue. This is one of America's sons or daughters waiting to be born. They are taken from the safety of their mother's womb and they are taken out very carefully so they can harvest certain body parts: hearts, lungs, heads. You can sit here and try to make it something about an agency and turn a blind eye to the act that is taking place in a country that will go to any length to protect life, in a people that believes in the sanctity of life from its very conception to its natural death. And somehow harvesting the parts from these little baby boys and girls has become a political issue? This is an issue human being to human being. This is an issue of conscience and conviction. Please, do not make it a political battle. This is about our sons and daughters. This is about a horrific act that is repulsive and repugnant and has no place in America. America's taxpayers refuse to pay for that type of act. Wake up.
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania

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