[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11589]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SUPPORT PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, why is the pro-abortion 
movement even more fiercely opposed to the partial birth abortion bill 
than other pro-life measures? They insist that this bill would regulate 
only a small percentage of abortions, yet they are outraged that the 
bill is on the docket today.
  I think it is this. Usually when we discuss abortion we talk about 
everything but abortion itself. According to the rules of the game the 
abortion controversy is about philosophy or religion or economics, 
about everything but what actually happens in each and every abortion.
  By addressing one particular kind of abortion, this legislation 
forces us for the first time to acknowledge the dark, dirty secret of 
what actually happens. The baby dies. The 23-year coverup about the 
brutal methods of abortion, including dismemberment, injections of 
chemical poisons and now brain-sucking procedures is over. The coverup 
is over. The gruesome spectacle of partial-birth abortions forces us to 
admit that what happens is death. It forces us to acknowledge that what 
dies is a baby, and we see all too clearly that the death inflicted on 
that baby is unspeakably cruel.

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