[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10531]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS IN NEW JERSEY

  (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, this past Sunday, New Jersey's 
Bergen Record published a lengthy investigative report about the 
partial-birth abortions. I was appalled to read that a single facility 
in New Jersey--Metropolitan Medical in Englewood--performs at least 
1,500 partial-birth abortions every year. This is three times the 
number of brain suction abortions that the National Abortion 
Federation, NARAL, and other pro-abortion groups have estimated are 
preformed annually throughout the country.
  This revelation belies the statement of Bill Clinton that the process 
of sucking a baby's brains out moments before his or her full delivery 
is limited to 500 children per year nationally. Even if the lower 
number were true, however, I am stunned that he or anyone else could 
belittle the horror of partial-birth abortion by saying it only kills 
500 children each year. This death toll exceeds the Oklahoma City 
bombings--an act of terrorism we have all condemned as barbaric.
  What is equally as frightening is the fact that the same Record 
article reveals the most partial-birth abortions in New Jersey were 
done to teenagers, and they were done as elective procedures, not for 
medical reasons. Let me quote form the article.

       ``We have an occasional amnio abnormality, but it's a 
     minuscule amount,'' said one of the doctors at Metropolitan 
     Medical, an assessment confirmed by another doctor there. 
     ``Most are Medicaid patients, black and white, and most are 
     for elective, not medical, reasons: people who didn't 
     realize, or didn't care, how far along they were. Most are 
     teenagers.''

  This contradicts everything the abortion President has said to 
justify his veto of the partial-birth abortion ban bill passed by both 
the House and the Senate. President Clinton should stop hiding from the 
truth.
  An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that partial-birth 
abortions are infanticide and should be banned. Bill Clinton is now not 
only ignoring the American people, but facts and figures coming from 
the States and the press.

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