June 6, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3229 should in fact tell them this is the best FLOUR BLUFF NJROTC WINS patriots and heroes whose sacrifice will and the greatest time of their lives. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP never be forgotten. But it is important for Members of (Mr. FARENTHOLD asked and was f Congress to recognize that we have a given permission to address the House PRO-LIFE CAUCUS task of graduating to do. We must for 1 minute and to revise and extend The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under graduate past sequestration and elimi- his remarks.) the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- nate it, for it is a tsunami against our Mr. FARENTHOLD. I recently met uary 3, 2013, the gentleman from New young people. up with some future leaders of the dis- Jersey (Mr. SMITH) is recognized for 60 We have to in fact graduate past this trict I represent who are members of minutes as the designee of the major- horrific, pending devastation of an in- the Flour Bluff High School Navy Jun- ity leader. crease in the student loan interest ior ROTC. They won first place this Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. rates that will go from 3.4 percent to year at the Texas State NJROTC com- Speaker, there are Kermit Gosnells all 6.8 percent. That’s a tsunami against petition and then went on to win the over American today inflicting not our young people—our brightest. And All Service Grand National Champion- only violence, cruelty, and death on we must turn back the clock on an ship in Daytona, Florida. very young children but excruciating amendment against those who came Before they won nationals, I went to pain as well. here as youngsters, through no fault of their school to congratulate them on Many Americans, including some their own, who are now graduating their regional win. I wished them good who self-identify as pro-choice, were from places around America, in high luck on their upcoming national com- shocked and dismayed by the Gosnell schools and colleges. Yes, immigrant petition. Their skill panned out, and expose and trial. Perhaps the decades- children who are undocumented, who they won. They said the other teams long culture of denial and deceptive want to give back to this Nation, pay were really strong; but, once again, marketing has made it difficult to see their taxes, get a work certificate and they won a national championship. and understand a disturbing reality. give back to those who no longer can This outstanding group of young men Even after 40 years of -on-de- work, a tsunami has just come against and women, led by Commander mand and over 55 million dead babies them. Armando Solis, who started the and millions of wounded mothers, We have to end this and stand for our NJROTC unit at Flour Bluff High many—until Gosnell—somehow con- children. Congratulations to the 2013 School in 1993, is a group of winners. At strued abortion as victimless. That has graduates. As I go home to their grad- nationals, aside from the Grand Na- changed. There are two victims, Mr. uations, I want to give them a gift that tional Championship, they won first Speaker, in every abortion: the mother America really stands for them. place in armed dual demilitarized, and her unborn child—three, if twins armed commander, demilitarized in- are involved. f spection, and second place in unarmed The brutality of severing the spines guard. of defenseless babies, euphemistically Congratulations to the young men WHITE HOUSE STANDING IN THE called ‘‘snipping’’ by Dr. Gosnell, has and women of the NJROTC at Flour finally peeled away the benign facade WAY OF GROWING ECONOMY Bluff High School. AND ADDING JOBS of the billion-dollar abortion industry. f Like Gosnell, abortionists all over (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given America decapitate, dismember, and HONORING SECOND LIEUTENANT permission to address the House for 1 chemically poison babies to death each JUSTIN SISSON AND ARMY SPE- minute and to revise and extend his re- and every year. That’s what they do. marks.) CIALIST ROBERT ALLAN PIERCE Americans are connecting the dots Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, the (Mr. YODER asked and was given and asking whether what Gosnell did is scandals embroiling the White House permission to address the House for 1 really any different than what all the are the result of a culture of contempt minute and to revise and extend his re- other abortionists do. And the answer for the law that we have seen since the marks.) is, no, it’s not different. A D&E abor- beginning of the Obama administra- Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, today, I tion, which is described here as a com- tion. rise to recognize two of America’s fin- mon method after 14 months, is a grue- est heroes. some, pain-filled act of violence that Over the past 4 years, President I was saddened to learn of the death literally rips and tears to pieces the Obama has demonstrated that dedica- of 23-year-old Second Lieutenant Jus- body parts of a child. And that’s what tion to ideology and politics to the ex- tin Sisson. Second Lieutenant Sisson they call ‘‘choice.’’ That is what they clusion of the rule of law and effec- graduated from Blue Valley West High call safe and legal abortion. tively working to get this economy School in Overland Park, Kansas, a Mr. Speaker, the Pain-Capable Un- booming again. Because of this admin- suburb of the Third District, which I born Child Protection Act, authored by istration’s agenda-driven Big Govern- represent. Sisson was assigned to the Congressman TRENT FRANKS and co- ment policies, it is now more difficult 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, sponsored by several Congresswomen for companies in western 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Air- and -men, including me, is a modest to grow and hire additional staff. borne Division as an assistant oper- but absolutely necessary attempt to at ObamaCare is raising costs, has dis- ations officer out of Fort Campbell, least protect some babies, that is to couraged hiring, and threatens access Kentucky. say, those who are 20 weeks old and to quality health care. Regulations Deployed to Afghanistan with less pain-capable, from having to suffer and strangling the financial sector are lim- than a year of Active Duty, Sisson, die a painful death from abortion. iting opportunities for small businesses along with Army Specialist Robert On May 23, Chairman TRENT FRANKS to add jobs. And just last week, we Allan Pierce of Panama, Oklahoma, convened a hearing in the Judiciary learned that 134 hardworking employ- was killed on Monday by a suicide ve- Committee’s Constitution and Civil ees of a coal company in western Penn- hicle-borne improvised explosive de- Justice Subcommittee on his legisla- sylvania were laid off. They can thank vice. tion. The bill, H.R. 1797, entitled the President Obama and his war on coal With the deaths of Second Lieuten- Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection for altering the market for one of ant Justin Sisson and Specialist Rob- Act, was approved by the sub- America’s most valuable and abundant ert Pierce, we are once again reminded committee on June 4 and now moves to resources. that freedom is not free. As Americans, the full committee and, hopefully, soon President Obama and his administra- we owe a debt of gratitude to these to the full House. tion need to stop their failed Big Gov- brave men that we simply cannot The testimony of several witnesses, ernment policies, and instead, we need repay. Mr. Speaker, I would respectfully sub- to do all we can to get jobs back to the Second Lieutenant Sisson and Spe- mit is a must-read for anyone who American people around the Nation. cialist Pierce will forever be known as cares about human rights, for anyone

VerDate Mar 15 2010 06:49 Jul 12, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\H06JN3.REC H06JN3 bjneal on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE H3230 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 6, 2013 who cares about women and children. it was to tell of her experience as a reg- . Meanwhile, babies of iden- One witness, Dr. Anthony Levatino, a istered nurse in the labor and delivery de- tical age are being torn apart by D&E former abortionist, testified that he partment at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Il- with no pain relief whatso- performed approximately 1,200 abor- linois, where she discovered babies were ever. Again, they suffer, and they suf- being aborted alive and shelved, put on a tions. Over 100 of them were second tri- shelf to die in the department’s soiled utility fer horribly. mester abortions like this D&E proce- closet. It must be that some people dure that is described here in this Indeed, this nurse went on to say at inexplicably think that the pro- graph. the hearing: vides a firewall against fetal pain, or He said: that babies marked for abortion are I was traumatized and changed forever by Imagine, if you can, you are a pro-choice my experience of holding a little abortion somehow numb while their wanted obstetrician/gynecologist like I once was. survivor for 45 minutes until he died—a 21- counterparts aren’t. They’re not numb. Your patient today is 24 weeks pregnant. If to 22-week-old baby who had been aborted They feel every single bit of killing, you could see her baby, which is quite easy because he had Down syndrome. whether it’s the Sopher clamp or any on an ultrasound, she would be as long as other instrument is being used to dis- your hand plus half from the top of her head Since then, other appalling stories of to the bottom of her rump, not counting the abortion survivors either being aban- member or to decapitate. legs. Your patient has been feeling her baby doned or killed have trickled out. She concludes by saying: kick for at least a month or more. But now In 2005, a mother delivered a 23-week- This thinking is better suited for the Mid- she is asleep on an operating table. old baby in a toilet at an EPOC clinic dle Ages than for modern medicine. He continued: in Orlando, Florida, and was shocked Mr. Speaker, today there is ample With suction of the amniotic fluid, after to see this little guy move. Abortion documentation that unborn children that is completed, you look for what he staff not only refused to help, but experience serious pain from at least called a Sopher clamp. This instrument is turned away paramedics, who her the 20th week—and most likely even about 13 inches long and made of stainless friend had notified by calling 911. before that. When it comes to pain, all steel. At the business end are located jaws Angele, the woman, could do no more of us go through great lengths to miti- 1 about 2 ⁄2 inches long and about three-quar- than helplessly sit on the floor rocking gate its severity and its duration. None ters of an initial inch. and singing to her baby for 11 minutes of us ever want to die a painful death. This is what he is talking about right until that infant died. Unborn children deserve no less. here. In 2006, Sycloria Williams delivered I yield to the prime sponsor of this b 1200 her 23-week-old baby born on a recliner very important legislation, the gen- at a GYN diagnostic center in Hialeah, This instrument is for grasping and crush- tleman from Arizona (Mr. FRANKS), the ing tissue. When it gets hold of something, it Florida. When he began breathing and chairman of the committee and, like I does not let go. moving, abortion clinic owner Belkis said, the author of the bill. A second trimester D&E abortion is a blind Gonzalez cut the umbilical cord and Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Well, I procedure. The baby can be in any orienta- zipped him into a biohazard bag, still thank the gentleman. tion, he goes on, or position inside the uter- alive. Mr. Speaker, I don’t often do this, us. Picture yourself reaching in with the So- The Kermit Gosnell case provides but I’m going to step away from my pher clamp and grasping anything that you further evidence that the lines between prepared remarks just a moment and can. and legal feticide, both via At 24 weeks’ gestation, the uterus is thin express a sincere gratitude to Con- and soft, so be careful not to perforate or abortion, have become blurred. This gressman CHRIS SMITH. puncture the walls. Once you’ve grasped abortionist was convicted only last Mr. Speaker, years ago, when I came something inside—this doctor, former abor- week—that’s when she was talking, to Washington the very first time, it tionist, goes on to say—squeeze on the clamp when she testified—of three counts of was on a weekend. I couldn’t come here to set the jaws and pull hard. Pull really first degree . and visit the Congress, but I came to hard. You feel something let go and out pops And also last week, as she went on to the congressional halls of where their a fully formed leg about six inches long. say, in yet another revelation and Reach in again and grasp whatever you can, offices were. There were two offices photos from three former employees that I visited. One was the late Henry set the jaw, and pull really hard once again who alleged that abortionist Douglas and out pops an arm about the same length. Hyde—one of the greatest human Reach in again and again with that clamp Karpen in Houston, Texas, routinely beings to ever sit in this place—and the and tear out the spine, the intestines, the kills babies after they are born by other was CHRIS SMITH. I just have to heart, and the lungs. puncturing the soft spot at the top of say to you—I know it embarrasses him The doctor goes on to say that, the tough- the head, or impaling the stomach with terribly, but this is my heart—I believe est part of a D&E abortion is extracting the a sharp instrument, twisting off the this man to be truly one of the greatest baby’s head. The head of a baby that age is head, or puncturing the throat with his about the size of a large plum and is now free heroes in this Congress. All the 30-plus finger. years that he has been here, he has floating inside of the uterine cavity. You can Mr. Speaker, if that’s not child abuse be pretty sure you have hold of it if the So- given everything he had to protect lit- pher clamp is spread as far as your fingers in its most extreme form, I don’t know tle children who couldn’t vote for him. will allow. You will know you have it right what is. I am just convinced, in the councils when you crush down on the clamp and you It is easy to be horrified, she went on of eternity, that someone is going to see a white gelatinous material coming in her testimony to say, this nurse, by look him in the eyes one day when he through the . That is the baby’s brains, heart-wrenching stories such as these crosses over that threshold and say, this abortionist goes on to say. You can then and to imagine the torture abortion extract the skull in pieces. ‘‘Well done.’’ And I am just grateful survivors endure as they are being that we have men like that here. Many times, he went on in his testimony killed. But it is somehow not so easy before Trent Franks’ subcommittee, many Mr. Speaker, DANIEL WEBSTER once for some to envision preborn babies the times a little face will come out and stare said: back at you. Congratulations; you have just same age being tortured as they are killed by similar methods. Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution successfully performed a second trimester and to the Republic for which it stands. For D&E abortion. You just affirmed the right to Today, premature babies are rou- miracles do not cluster—and America is a choose. If you refuse to believe that this pro- tinely given pain relief who are born at miracle, Mr. Speaker. For miracles do not cedure inflicts severe pain on that unborn the same age as babies who are torn cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 child, please think again. It does. limb from limb or injected in the heart years may never happen again. So hold on to Another witness, Mr. Speaker, Ms. during abortions. the Constitution. For if the American Con- , a registered nurse, spoke Even the World Health Organization stitution should fall, there will be anarchy of appalling stories of abortion sur- goes so far as to recommend analgesia throughout the world. vivors and the pain—the pain—the ex- for premies getting simple heel pricks Our Founding Fathers wrote the cruciating pain that they suffer when for a couple of drops of blood. Likewise, words of our Constitution down for us they are being aborted. prenatal surgery is commonplace, and because they didn’t want us to forget She pointed out that when she testi- along with it, for babies their true meaning or to otherwise fall fied before the committee back in 2001: being operated on even in the middle of prey to those who would deliberately

VerDate Mar 15 2010 06:49 Jul 12, 2013 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\RECORD13\RECFILES\H06JN3.REC H06JN3 bjneal on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with CONG-REC-ONLINE June 6, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H3231 undermine or destroy it. This has al- this little baby that had been so dam- Throughout America’s history, the ways been the preeminent reason why aged by the process that it no longer hearts of the American people have al- we write down documents or agree- had eyes or a mouth, but she could ways been moved with compassion ments or declarations or constitutions hear him screeching and making this when they discover a theretofore hid- in the first place, to preserve their sound like a little alien. den class of victims. Once the human- original meaning and intent. I know sometimes, Mr. Speaker, we ity of the victim and the inhumanity of deliberately try to hide those things b 1210 what is being done to them finally be- from our minds. I know I do. But once comes clear in their minds, America Mr. Speaker, it really causes us to in awhile it’s important just to think changes their heart. ask ourselves the question: Why was on the life of this one little child that I would submit to you, Mr. Speaker, all of this effort made? Why are we was only in this world outside the America is on the cusp of another such really here in this Chamber? womb for a few minutes and found realization. And I fear if we fail to re- And I would suggest to you that if we nothing but horror and suffering, not spond this time—because after this, simply avail ourselves of the most cur- knowing why, not knowing what the after Kermit Gosnell, no excuse re- sory glance of the Founding Fathers, purpose or the reason was, and no one mains, we have seen the worst—if we we are all here to protect the lives of was there. I just have to say to you, do not respond, then we will slide into Americans and their constitutional Mr. Speaker, if that isn’t wrong, then that Sumerian darkness where the rights. And protecting the lives of we can absolve ourselves forever be- light of human compassion has gone Americans and their constitutional cause nothing is wrong. Had Kermit out and where the survival of the fit- rights is the reason Congress exists in Gosnell done the same thing mere mo- test has prevailed over humanity, and the first place. ments before when that little baby was it must not happen on our watch in The phrases in the Fifth and the 14th still inside the womb, in many States this generation. Amendments capsulate our entire Con- in this union, in the land of the free Medical science regarding the devel- stitution when they proclaim that ‘‘no and the home of the brave, it would opment of unborn babies and their ca- person shall be deprived of life, liberty, have been entirely legal. pacities at various stages of growth has or property without due process of We’ve seen similarly other late-term advanced dramatically, and it incon- law.’’ It’s that simple. Those words are abortionists across this country ex- trovertibly demonstrates that unborn a crystal clear reflection of our Con- posed for such incomprehensibly bar- children clearly do experience pain. stitution and the proclamation that baric practices. LeRoy Carhart in The single greatest hurdle to legisla- the Declaration of Independence put Maryland compared a ‘‘baby in the tion like H.R. 3803 has always been that forward to all of us when it declared womb before an abortion’’ to ‘‘meat in opponents deny unborn babies feel pain that ‘‘all men’’—and I would suggest to a crock pot.’’ at all, as if somehow the ability to feel you, Mr. Speaker, that’s all little ba- Abortion clinic employees in Arizona pain magically develops instanta- bies too—‘‘are created equal and en- explained to a woman seeking an abor- neously as a child passes through the dowed by our Creator with certain tion at 24 weeks that ‘‘sometimes they birth canal. unalienable rights, those being life, lib- are sometimes alive, yeah, but it Mr. Speaker, this level of deliberate erty, and the pursuit of happiness.’’ doesn’t necessarily mean that it’’—the ignorance might have found excuse in Those words are the essence of Amer- baby—‘‘will come out whole.’’ earlier eras of human history, but the ica, and our commitment to them for Douglas Karpen in Texas has been ac- evidence available to us today is exten- more than two centuries has set Amer- cused by four separate employees of sive and irrefutable: unborn children ica apart as the flagship of human free- killing three to four born-alive babies have the capacity to experience pain, dom in the world. It has made us the per day by either cutting their spinal at least by 20 weeks and, as Congress- ‘‘unipolar superpower’’ of this planet, cords, forcing instruments in their soft man SMITH said, very likely substan- and yet unspeakable suffering and spots on their heads, or twisting their tially earlier. tragedy have occurred whenever we heads off, completely off of their necks This information, Mr. Speaker, is at have strayed from those foundational with his bare hands. www.doctorsonfetalpain.org. I would words. Very simply, Mr. Speaker, the public sincerely recommend to anyone in this Our own United States Supreme is beginning to learn that there are Chamber that is interested to really Court did exactly that, Mr. Speaker, scores of other Kermit Gosnells out know the truth to go there and find out when they ruled that millions of men, there. He was not an aberration. One of for themselves, rather than to have women, and children were not persons the saddest things that we must not their understanding cemented in some under the Constitution because their miss here, is that as evil as this man earlier time when scientists still be- skin was the wrong color. It took a was, and the horrible things that he lieved in spontaneous generation, and horrible Civil War and the deaths of did, unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, they that the Earth was flat. That is the in- over 600,000 Americans to reverse that are not uncommon in America. And be- vincible ignorance sometimes that we unspeakable tragedy. And we saw that cause of this, Americans are beginning find ourselves trying to break through same arrogance in 1973 when the Su- to realize that somehow we are bigger on this seminal civil rights issue of our preme Court said ‘‘the unborn child than abortion on demand, and that 55 time. was not a person under the Constitu- million dead children are enough. Most Americans think that late-term tion.’’ And we have since witnessed the We are beginning to ask the real abortions are rare, but in fact there are silent deaths of now over 55 million in- question: Does abortion take the life of approximately 120,000 late-term abor- nocent little boys and baby girls who a child? Mr. Speaker, that is the ques- tions in America every year, or more died without the protection of the Con- tion that I would put before all of my than 325 late-term abortions every day stitution, the protection that the Con- colleagues and anyone in the sound of in America. Mr. Speaker, I believe stitution gave them, and without the my voice, to ask themselves in their we’re better than that. We’re better protection this Congress should have heart—put aside the rationalization than 325 late-term abortions every day had the courage to defend. just for a moment and ask yourself: in this country. I believe that we’re Mr. Speaker, the recent trial of Does abortion take the life of a child? better than dismembering babies who Kermit Gosnell has played an instru- If it does not, I’m willing to walk out can feel pain at every agonizing mo- mental role in exposing late-term abor- of here and never mention the subject ment. And I sincerely hope that we can tions for what they really are—relo- again. But if abortion really does kill a at the very least come together to cated infanticide. Kermit Gosnell is little baby, if it really does, then those agree that we can draw a line in the this now famous late-term abortionist of us sitting here in the seat of free- sand at that point. That we can agree convicted of murder, in part, for using dom, in the greatest, the most powerful that knowingly subjecting our inno- scissors to cut the spinal cords of nu- Nation in the history of humanity, also cent unborn children to dismember- merous little babies who had survived find ourselves standing in the midst of ment in the womb, particularly when abortion attempts. One of his employ- the greatest human genocide in the they have developed to the point when ees said that in one case that there was history of the world. they can feel excruciating pain every

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One would purest sense of the word. It is the abortion. We cannot turn our backs on argue, certainly, as the illustration greatest human rights violation occur- it now. It is time for an open and hon- here shows, that this is not a one- ring on U.S. soil, and it has already est discussion about abortion in this celled fetus, or baby—it’s a human victimized millions of pain-capable ba- country. Kermit Gosnell’s crimes being that given time will grow, that bies since the Supreme Court gave us shocked civilized people everywhere. will grow to be your size or my size. all abortion-on-demand that tragic day The inescapable truth is that there is I’m 6-foot-4. I’m a little bigger than in 1973. no moral distinction between ending a normal. Some people are shorter than Thomas Jefferson said that the care child’s life 5 seconds after birth or 5 average, but we’re all human beings, so of human life and its happiness and not weeks before. Sadly, across this coun- size doesn’t make the difference. its destruction is the chief and only ob- try, abortion providers like Planned Again, from a scientific point of ject of good government. And ladies Parenthood routinely perform brutal view, to me, it’s clear: it is a human and gentlemen, using taxpayer dollars late-term abortions on unborn children life from conception and should be pro- to fund the killing of innocent unborn who are able to feel pain. The end re- tected. Yet, Mr. Speaker, I understand children does not liberate their moth- sult at a clinic is the country doesn’t agree. Some people ers. It leaves their mothers oftentimes the same result that occurred at don’t agree it should be protected. So with the brokenness and the emotional Kermit Gosnell’s clinic—and that is the question is: At what point do you consequences without anyone there to death. protect it? really recognize what they have dealt So I am proud to stand here today to A lot of people would say at this with. It is not the cause for which cosponsor Mr. FRANKS’ legislation to point it probably is worth protecting those lying out under the white stones prohibit the gruesome abortions of un- that human life. Certainly, the jury in in Arlington National Cemetery died, born children, who can feel pain. I Pennsylvania said that you couldn’t and it is not good government. thank the gentleman from Arizona for kill that baby right after it was born. Abraham Lincoln called upon all of his consistent and strong support of Strangely enough, Federal law, as in- us to remember America’s Founding the measure and, to a larger extent, for terpreted by the Supreme Court, says Fathers and their enlightened belief his support for the unborn children as that it can be legal to kill that child 5 that nothing stamped with the Divine we’ve seen today as he spoke so elo- minutes before that birth. I think most image and likeness was sent into this quently from the floor. Americans find that repulsive—that world to be trodden on or degraded and Today, I am proud to join my col- with a baby at almost 9-months’ gesta- imbruded by its fellows. leagues Mr. SMITH, Mr. HARRIS and oth- tion, in many States, it is legal to kill He reminded those he called pos- ers who have stood up for those who that child 5 minutes before birth, but terity—those, us—that when in the dis- cannot speak for themselves. I am con- in Pennsylvania it resulted in three tant future some man, some faction, fident that we will expose big abor- murder sentences because it was 5 min- some interest should set up a doctrine tion’s lies and restore a lasting respect utes after birth. that some were not entitled to life, lib- for innocent life. So what this bill says is let’s come erty and the pursuit of happiness that Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Thank together, and let’s agree on a time their posterity—that is us, ladies and you, Mr. STUTZMAN, for your eloquent when human life is going to be pro- gentlemen—might look up again to the remarks as well as those of Chairman tected. It’s not going to be a perfect Declaration of Independence and take FRANKS’, who is compassionate and agreement. It’s going to be arbitrary courage to renew the battle which courageous like you and like our next because, again, that human life started their fathers began. speaker, who is also eloquent in the de- when it was one cell large. At concep- Mr. Speaker, may that be the com- fense of the most defenseless. tion, that human life started. We all mitment to all of us today. I would like to yield to Dr. ANDY agree that, Mr. Speaker, you and I are Mr. STUTZMAN. I thank the gen- HARRIS, who is a board-certified anes- human life and worthy of protection, tleman from Arizona, and I thank the thesiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital so the only question is: Where do we gentleman from New Jersey for their Medical Center. draw the line? passion and also for their sharing with Mr. HARRIS. Thank you very much. Again, the gentleman from Arizona us today such an important issue that Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the suggested correctly that we need to faces us as a country. It is a privilege gentleman from New Jersey for orga- draw that line. This bill attempts to and an honor to stand here with Mr. nizing this because we come to Wash- draw the line. The Supreme Court at- SMITH and Mr. FRANKS. I thank you for ington to make tough decisions. That’s tempted to draw a very clumsy draw- your work, for all you have done for so what the country expects of us. ing of the line in the Roe v. Wade deci- long on an issue that is close to my Mr. Speaker, I will offer the fact that sion because it said it is viability, but heart and close to many people’s hearts one of the most difficult decisions we the problem is that viability, over the across the country as well. To see the have to come to grips with is when do 30-plus years I’ve practiced medicine, picture here that Mr. SMITH showed, if we begin to protect human life. The has changed. It’s a moving target. that doesn’t touch a part of you, I gentleman from Arizona was abso- don’t know what will. So thank you for lutely right. We have to answer the b 1230 the information and for the heart that question: Does abortion take the life of Viability then was 25 weeks. Now it’s you show for these little ones that are a human child? If we all agree that it 231⁄4. It’s a moving line. And what does blessed with life until it is ended in does, then we have to ask ourselves and viability mean? Viability means it can such a brutal way. come to an agreement on at what point survive without the support of that Mr. Speaker, the horrific case of do we begin to protect that life; at mother. Kermit Gosnell stripped away the abor- what point are we as a Nation going to That’s a little arbitrary, Mr. Speak- tion industry’s euphemisms and say that human life is worthy of pro- er. If that mother had an elderly moth- showed that abortion isn’t safe and tection. er or grandmother at home, perhaps that it isn’t rare. Gosnell murdered Now, as a physician, Mr. Speaker, I disabled with Alzheimer’s disease, to- newborn babies; he preyed on vulner- will tell you I am always puzzled by tally dependent on that mother—now, able women; and he stuffed bodies into the question because, scientifically, ev- it’s not their mother, but it’s the freezers, trash bags and cat food tins. eryone who has taken a genetics course mother of a child, a fetus. That grown- While a jury has handed down its ver- knows that, from the moment of con- up could be totally dependent on that

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A robust dis- we’re going to have to draw the line some ways. Is it the perfect way? cussion of human rights abuses in somewhere. Maybe not. But we ought to begin that China, however, must be on the agenda This bill says, Let’s do it when we be- discussion because right now, Mr. and not in a superfluous or superficial lieve that baby begins to feel pain, Speaker, the Supreme Court’s interpre- way. that, in fact, a D&E procedure will be tation of the law allows a State to It is time to get serious about Chi- exceedingly painful. Mr. Speaker, this allow an abortion that kills a baby na’s flagrant abuse of human rights. is exactly what happens in a D&E pro- right up to the moment of birth, and It’s time for this President, this admin- cedure. The fetus, the baby is literally that’s just not right. We need to set istration to end its manifest indiffer- torn apart. Literally. This is what hap- some line in law. ence towards human rights abuse in pens with it. Again, I’ll agree with the gentleman the People’s Republic of China. It’s So we’re all going to have to agree from Arizona that it may not be a per- time for President Obama to cease his that, first of all, this is certainly not fect line, but we all have to agree we numbing indifference towards the vic- pleasant to look at. The medical illus- need to draw it to begin thinking about tims of Beijing’s abuse. trations when I was studying, of it; and I would suggest this is a reason- Mr. Speaker, can a dictatorship that course, which was around the time of able one. When are we no longer going crushes the rights and freedoms of its Roe v. Wade, didn’t have this kind of il- to subject that baby to the pain of a own people be trusted on trade and se- lustration; but abortion policy in this procedure and begin to protect that curity? China today is the torture capital of country in the past 30 years forces us baby’s life? the world, and victims include reli- to actually illustrate what it looks I want to thank the gentleman from gious believers, ethnic minorities, like. This is it. New Jersey again. He’s brought the human rights defenders like Chen So this bill says—again, in the con- issue before this body. If we believe Guancheng and Gao Zhisheng and hun- text of the Gosnell trial showing all that this is just some abstract thought dreds and thousands of political dis- America that—and I think almost all about when we protect human life, as I’ve spoken about on the floor and the sidents. America agrees that what happened in If you are a political or religious dis- gentleman from New Jersey has—Mr. Pennsylvania, knowingly killing by sident or believer of the Underground Speaker, I suggest if you want some snipping the spinal cord of an alive, Christian Church, Falun Gong, a part very interesting reading tonight, go awake baby right after an abortion of the Uyghur Muslim minority or Ti- home and Google the Journal of Med- procedure that resulted in a live birth betan Buddhist, if you are arrested, ical Ethics and look for the article pub- is, in fact, murder. It’s the taking of a you will be tortured, and in some cases lished last November where academics human life subject to punishment. you will be tortured to death. But most people would say, How are from Australia and Italy wrote an arti- Additionally, Mr. Speaker, hundreds we going to protect this child? I offer cle suggesting that it should be all of millions of women have been forced that this is a compromise that maybe right to kill a human baby up to some to abort their precious babies pursuant we all can work around and say that if certain amount of time after birth if to China’s draconian one-child policy that child during that procedure feels that human baby is inconvenient to which has led to gendercide, the vio- pain, then it probably should be pro- the mother and the family to which it lent extermination of unborn baby tected under our law. belongs. girls simply because they are girls. The I would offer, Mr. Speaker, I hope The question again is not clear cut. slaughter of the girl child in China is that never happens in this country, There will be some disagreement not only a massive gender crime, but a that that suggestion never takes root among people when that pain can be security issue, as well. felt. There’s a lot of indication sci- here. I think we would find that hor- entifically and chemically and with rendous. But it does bring up the ques- b 1240 neurodevelopment that that child feels tion that if we find it so horrendous 1 A witness at one of my hearings that pain at 20 weeks. It’s certainly a little minute after birth, shouldn’t it be hor- I chaired—I chair the Subcommittee on more subject to discussion whether it’s rendous 1 minute before birth? And if Africa, Global Human Rights, and earlier. it’s 1 minute before birth, how about 1 International Organizations. Over the I will tell you later shouldn’t be sub- week? How about 1 month? How about years, I have chaired over 46 congres- ject to discussion because, Mr. Speak- 2 months? We can go all the way back. sional hearings focused exclusively on er, you know that if you do a procedure Should it be when the heartbeat ap- China’s human rights issues. One of the on a premature infant born and pears at 7 weeks? At 7 weeks’ gesta- witnesses at one of my earlier hear- brought to the neonatal intensive care tion, the heartbeat appears. Even ear- ings, Valerie Hudson, author of a book unit, you actually administer pain re- lier. Should it be when the baby moves, called ‘‘Bare Branches,’’ testified that lievers when you do the procedure. So when quickening is felt? That’s the gender imbalance will lead to insta- the medical community has already de- medical term: quickening. bility and chaos and even to war be- cided that by 23 weeks it already feels This bill sets a reasonable point of cause of the domestic chaos and insta- pain; and believe me, Mr. Speaker, it discussion. Let’s do it when we think a bility that will occur. And that the one didn’t magically occur with birth, the baby would feel the pain of that abor- child has not enhanced China’s secu- ability to feel pain. tion. rity, but it has demonstrably weakened Again, we can know by the develop- CHINESE HUMAN RIGHTS it. ment of the nervous system, by things Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I want to Nick Eberstadt, the world-renowned we can see and measure. We believe thank my good friend and very distin- AEI demographer, has famously that at 20 weeks that fetus, that baby, guished colleague, Dr. ANDY HARRIS, phrased it and asked the question: can feel pain and therefore deserves for his very eloquent and very incisive What are the consequences for a soci- protection. remarks and for his leadership on be- ety that has chosen to become simulta- Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that’s a half of human rights in general, includ- neously more gray and more male—the compromise we all ought to be able to ing here in the United States. missing daughters, by the tens of mil- work with. Again, it is a compromise We’ve been discussing human rights lions in China—as a direct result of because, Mr. Speaker, I will tell you abuse here in the United States in try- sex-selection abortion? that human life does begin at concep- ing to defend at least pain-capable un- In 2000, Mr. Speaker, I authored a law tion. The discussion here is not going born children from the violence of known as the Trafficking Victims Pro- to be when human life begins. It’s when abortion. I would like to focus for a few tection Act of 2000. It is our landmark

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Mem- selling women as commodities, selling together a congressional hearing with- bers are reminded to address their re- them in China against their will, of in 2 days—December 8, 1996—and wit- marks to the Chair. nesses who were there on Tiananmen course, through coercion, because of f the missing girls, the missing daugh- Square in 1989, including Dr. Yang ters, and the missing young women. Jianli, a leader and survivor of the POISON PILL AMENDMENT IN Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, the massacre, and Time magazine Bureau HOMELAND SECURITY APPRO- world remembered the dream that was Chief David Aikman, who were actu- PRIATIONS and is the Tiananmen Square protest of ally witnesses at my hearing this past (Mr. VEASEY asked and was given 1989 and deeply honored the sacrifice Monday. We also invited Minister Chi, permission to address the House for 1 endured by an extraordinarily brave or anyone the Chinese Embassy might minute and to revise and extend his re- group of pro-democracy Chinese women want to send to the hearing to give an marks.) and men who dared to demand funda- accounting of that blatant lie. I guess Mr. VEASEY. Mr. Speaker, I stand mental human rights for all Chinese. Minister Chi thought he was back in here today greatly saddened and dis- Twenty-four years ago this week, the Beijing when he was at the Army War appointed in this House of Representa- world watched in awe and wonder, as it College where the big lie is king and no tives. I was prepared to vote in support has since mid-April of 1989, as hundreds one ever dares to do a fact check. of the Homeland Security appropria- of thousands of mostly young people Last week, Mr. Speaker, the U.S. De- tions bill for the upcoming fiscal year, peacefully petitioned the Chinese Gov- partment of State asked the Chinese a bill that is supposed to ensure our Government to ‘‘end harassment of ernment to reform and to democratize. local law enforcement, emergency re- those who participated in the protest China seemed to be the next impending sponders, antiterrorism experts, and of 1989 and fully account for those triumph for freedom and democracy, border security professionals have the killed, detained, or missing.’’ What was especially after the collapse of the dic- resources they need to keep our coun- the response from the Chinese Govern- tatorships of the Soviet Union and the try safe. Instead, we see a bipartisan ment? The Chinese Foreign Ministry Warsaw Pact nations. But when the and widely agreed upon bill that would acrimoniously said that the United People’s Liberation Army poured in fund Homeland Security efforts across States should ‘‘stop interfering in Chi- and around the square on June 3, the the Nation be overtaken by a violently na’s internal affairs so as not to sabo- wonder of Tiananmen turned to shock, controversial amendment from the tears, fear, and helplessness. On June 3 tage China-U.S. relations.’’ We have heard that line from the So- gentleman from Iowa that was included and 4, and for days, weeks, and years, in the final passage of the bill. right up until today, the Chinese dicta- viet Union. We heard it from those who supported apartheid in South Africa: The last-minute amendment goes be- torship delivered a barbaric response— yond the pale of discrimination by pro- mass murder, torture, incarceration, Don’t interfere. Human rights are universal, and we hibiting funding to implement Presi- the systematic suppression of funda- need to speak out boldly and without dent Obama’s deferred action plan from mental human rights, and coverup. fear when they are violated, wherever last year that would protect DREAM- The Chinese Government not only ERs from deportation. This poison pill continues to inflict unspeakable pain and whenever they occur. ‘‘Sabotage’’ Sino-American relations amendment endangers over 800,000 and suffering on its own people, but the because our side requests an end to young undocumented immigrants who coverup of the Tiananmen Square mas- harassment and an accounting? It have no home other than the United sacre is without precedent in modern sounds to me like they have much to States and only want a fair shot at an history. Even though journalists and hide. education and opportunity to pursue live television and radio documented Therefore, Mr. President, tomorrow their passions out of the shadows. the massacre, the Chinese Communist when you meet with the unelected I voted against final passage of the Party lies and continues to deny it, President of China, and Saturday when Homeland Security appropriations bill that it even occurred, to obfuscate, and you meet with him as well, please be because this amendment was allowed to threaten anyone who dares speak informed, be bold, be tenacious, and se- to be passed by the Republican major- out in China about the massacre and riously raise human rights with Chi- ity, and I am deeply saddened that over all of the terrible barbarity that fol- nese President Xi. No superficial inter- 220 of my colleagues in this Chamber lowed. vention. No checking off on the box, want to shatter those dreams. In December of 1996, Mr. Speaker, Yes, I raised human rights. Raise real f General Chi Haotian, the operational names. Ask for their release. Raise real commander who ordered the murder of issues, like the horrific one child per b 1250 the Tiananmen protesters, visited couple policy or the endemic use of tor- Washington, D.C., as the Chinese De- UPHOLDING THE TRUST OF THE ture by the Chinese dictatorship. Raise AMERICAN PEOPLE fense Minister. You see, he was pro- the 16 cases that are being raised and moted after he killed all of those inno- given to you to raise of individuals, The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. cent people. Minister Chi was wel- people who in China are like the mod- BRIDENSTINE). Under the Speaker’s an- comed by President Clinton at the ern-day Natan Sharansky or others nounced policy of January 3, 2013, the White House with full military honors, who have suffered so much for freedom gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. JACKSON including a 19-gun salute—a bizarre for all these years—like Gao Zhisheng LEE) is recognized for 60 minutes as the spectacle that I and many others on and others. designee of the minority leader. both sides of the aisle protested. But Mr. Speaker, we will not forget what Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, it why do I bring this up now? General took place in Tiananmen Square 24 certainly is a privilege to be able to Chi addressed the Army War College on years ago this past Monday and Tues- come to the floor and begin a dialogue, that trip and in answer to a question day. The struggle for freedom in China because there’s one thing that I think said: continues. Some day the people of is vital. We could hold up the Constitu- Not a single person lost his life in China will enjoy all of their God-given tion, which I often do. We can speak Tiananmen Square. fundamental human rights; and as a with great eloquence on the floor of the He claimed that the People’s Libera- nation of free Chinese women and men, House, even go to our districts and tion Army did nothing more violent they will some day honor and applaud speak to our constituents. than the ‘‘pushing of people’’ during all those who suffered so much in the But I do think it is important that the 1989 protest. Not a single person Laogai, the Chinese gulags, and sac- the trust of the American people, even lost his or her life? Are you kidding? rificed so much for so long. though sometimes tattered, sometimes That big lie and countless others like Mr. President, the ball is in your challenged, that what we can at least it, however, is, and it was then, the court. President Obama, raise these adhere to are the values of this Nation,

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