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On the recordMay 8, 2013
if I may continue my remarks which I started a few moments ago. According to his defense attorneys, then, Dr. Gosnell is not a monster, not a serial killer, not a predator of helpless mothers and their children. He is just an abortionist. In this context, Dr. Gosnell's alleged crimes were just abortions, and his facility, the so- called Women's Medical Society--reportedly strewn about with animal waste, infectious instruments, and fetal remains--was not, as the grand jury alleged, ``a baby charnel house.'' No, it was just a clinic. His staff of allegedly unqualified, untrained frauds were not coconspirators in the contract killing of newborns. No, they were just health care providers. And the failure of local health inspectors and political officials to investigate repeated claims of Dr. Gosnell's barbarism was just a bureaucratic oversight--perhaps--or perhaps, as the panicked abortion industry would have us believe, Dr. Gosnell is an outlier, an outcast, nothing like the professional, competent, law- abiding late-term abortion providers around the country. But then again perhaps not. Just a few weeks ago, a Planned Parenthood representative testified before the Florida State legislature and suggested that infants born alive during botched abortions might not be entitled to medical attention--in clear violation of Federal law, to say nothing of fundamental human rights and dignity.…
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee
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May 8, 2013

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