[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 79 (Friday, May 12, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1029]
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                      THE RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF 1995

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                         HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 12, 1995
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to introduce the Right to 
Life Act of 1995 because I must do what I can for our society to 
instill respect for human life and stop the current culture of death. 
The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade laid out the blueprint for this 
legislation. It is simple, reasonable, and just, and provides that the 
right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human 
being at fertilization.
  We Members of the House know that for each of the past 22 years 
following Roe v. Wade, an estimated 1,500,000 preborn children have 
been institutionally killed throughout Federal enclaves and the States. 
More than 33,000,000 innocents have been slaughtered, pregnant mothers 
traumatized, and fathers denied paternity. As would be expected from 
this loss of respect for the value of dignity of human life, euthanasia 
followed the soaring abortion rate. And then street violence invaded 
the lives of all Americans at a frightening pace.
  And so, Mr. Speaker, I must ask America: ``How did this tragedy occur 
in our beautiful Land of the Free?'' Well, in a word, apathy. We took 
it for granted that America was good and just. But, evil worked from 
within, and persuaded our Supreme Court to make catastrophic errors of 
judgment, fact and law in Roe v. Wade, by which the Court authorized 
the killing of innocents. It is the same evil which we suffered when 
society permitted the presonhood of a slave to be less than the 
personhood of a slave owner. Now the right to life of a preborn person 
is less, according to the Court, than that of a born child.
  The Right to Life Act confronts and overcomes the abortion plague 
spawned by Roe v. Wade. It assures that we will no longer violate the 
basic human right to life. We will provide equal care and protection 
for the right to life for both a pregnant mother and her preborn child.
  As an American, I cannot live side-by-side with abortion and 
euthanasia as if it were not evil to kill a baby or the aged or sick. 
As a public official, I cannot sit by as if America cannot stop 
notorious violations of human rights in our country.
  For centuries, America was held hostage to the great controversy over 
the absolute evil of slavery. Now, for 22 years too long, America has 
been held hostage in this great controversy and conflict over the 
absolute evil of abortion.
  Where are the bodies of the 4,000 or more problem preborn babies 
intentionally killed each day in America? The press and media show us 
photos of starving children in foreign lands and urge us to get food to 
the hungry. We say the dead and barely alive victims of Hitler's death 
camps which sickened us 50 years ago. Today we still remember and 
memorialize the worst evils of World War II.
  No longer should there be a cover-up of the death of even one preborn 
baby. We must look squarely at the abortion tragedy and pray that 
America will be moved finally with reason and compassion to save 
preborn babies, their mothers and fathers, and our society.


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