[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 59 (Thursday, April 4, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3072]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          VOTE ON BORN-ALIVE ABORTION SURVIVOR PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, on Tuesday, I signed the 
discharge petition to force a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors 
Protection Act. 193 Members, including two Democrats, have already 
signed it. A discharge petition has not received such overwhelming 
support in the first 24 hours in at least 22 years.
  I applaud Congresswoman Ann Wagner for reintroducing this bill and 
Republican Whip   Steve Scalise for filing the discharge petition.
  The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would require that a 
child who is born alive after an attempted abortion receives treatment 
and be transferred to a hospital. This legislation penalizes the 
intentional killing of a child who is born alive.
  Unfortunately, we have seen horrific actions in New York and Virginia 
to allow late-term abortion. It is, essentially, the execution of a 
defenseless child after birth.
  Madam Speaker, this isn't abortion; this is infanticide. Any doctor 
who would leave a child to die should face the full extent of the law.
  Americans deserve to know whether their Representatives stand against 
infanticide or not. I urge the House to act on this bill. I urge us to 
choose life over murder.

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