[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 85 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H5439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION DECISION

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Supreme Court, by the narrowest 
of margins, ruled that the Nebraska law banning partial birth abortion 
was unconstitutional. Actually, partial birth abortion is not an 
abortion. It is a pre-term delivery that results in infanticide.
  Partial-birth abortion is so gruesome and barbaric that it is beyond 
the pale of any nation wishing to be known as civilized. It is in every 
case unjustifiable. It is in no case the lesser of two evils. It 
violates every principle of dignity, morality, ethics, and law that 
this Nation has stood for since its founding.
  The Supreme Court, acting as an oligarchy of five, has imposed 
infanticide on a decent nation. Sadly, it is declared the murder of 
innocent, healthy newborns to be within the bounds of the law.
  The court used Roe v. Wade as the basis for their decision, showing 
how radical the Roe decision really was. This ruling, like the Dredd 
Scott decision, has excluded a whole class of human beings from 
constitutional protection.
  Shame on the court. This is a dark day for America.

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