[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 22, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H5345]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
FIGHTING FOR THE UNBORN
(Mr. GUINTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. GUINTA. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today with a heavy heart.
Recently, videos have been released showing senior employees at
Planned Parenthood discussing a horrific topic: the proper way to
preserve the heart, liver, and lungs of a child during an abortion in
order to harvest those organs for sale.
Consider the illogical nature of the conclusion that an infant is not
a life, that an infant is not worthy of preservation, but the organs,
which give it life, are worthy enough to be kept and sold.
Pro-life or not, this should strike at the conscience of every human
being, and, in a larger sense, it should strike at the conscience of a
nation that this practice is permitted and allowed.
Following the release of these videos, House leadership called for an
investigation into Planned Parenthood, which I commend and fully
support.
I am often asked back home if I consider myself pro-life and, if so,
why. My answer to them is simple: I will never forget hearing my
daughter's heartbeat for the first time. That heartbeat had a name, and
its name was Colby.
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