[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 37 (Thursday, March 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       TODAY BRINGS THE OPPORTUNITY TO END PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION

  (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, I guess everybody now knows how 
far the so-called pro-choice movement will go. They will lie, as one 
top pro-abortionist recently admitted, to sustain the myth that 
abortion is somehow sane, compassionate, and even pro-child.
  Americans will now see that the real extremists are not the people 
who insist on calling attention to the grisly details of abortion, such 
as dismemberment of an unborn child, injections of poison, or 
puncturing the child's skull and sucking out his or her brains. 
Americans now know that the real extremists are those who actually do 
these abusive acts, and then lie through their teeth to sanitize and 
conceal the truth. The dangerous person is not the one who shows the 
pictures of partial-birth abortion, the dangerous person is the child 
abuser who holds the scissors at the base of the skull of that baby's 
brain.
  Let us end partial-birth abortion. We have the opportunity today. I 
hope we have a good bipartisan vote to do so later on this afternoon.

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