[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 58 (Thursday, April 25, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H2328-H2329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE GOSNELL TRIAL

  (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, it's difficult for me to even speak about

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this subject today. I'm a woman who's been privileged to give birth to 
5 children, and I've also taken 23 children into my home as foster 
children. It's very hard for me to imagine, Mr. Speaker, that a doctor 
in this country, a doctor who took an oath to do no harm, would, in 
fact, kill a woman at his abortion clinic and he would sever the heads 
of four babies that were born alive--and potentially others--and commit 
one gruesome act after another.
  Shamelessly, the mainstream media has all but gone silent and failed 
to cover this horrific violence against women.
  No one, Democrat or Republican, believes in violence against women. 
We abhor it. But there's nothing that even comes close to what's 
happened in this abortion clinic in Pennsylvania. The officials in 
Pennsylvania and the State Department of Health, unfortunately--it 
appears, willfully--ignored this heinous crime. It also appears that 
this has been ignored now across our Nation.
  Well, we won't ignore it. And I thank God for the men who stood up 
here today to stand for women and against violence against women. I 
lend my voice and my support to that effort as well.

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