[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             VOTE ``YES'' ON THE PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN

  (Mr. HOSTETTLER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOSTETTLER. Mr. Speaker, my friends, can 3 inches really be our 
guide to death over live?
  Can 3 inches determine the definition of ``person'' under the 14th 
and 5th amendments?
  Have we become so hardened in our hearts that not even the killing of 
a child during birth can be recognized as wrong?
  It was not always so in America. At one point in our history, ``We 
held these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; 
that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable 
rights; that among these are life * * *.''
  God have mercy on us.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote on H.R. 1833, the partial birth abortion ban.

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