[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                   THE MIRACLE AND GIFT OF HUMAN LIFE

  (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, today I want to draw attention to an amazing 
scientific and medical breakthrough that has received little attention 
in the press. It should cause each of us to pause and ponder the 
miracle and gift of human life.
  Little Neal Borkowski is still a tiny baby, yet he differs from most 
because he already has undergone brain surgery, not since his birth, 
but while he was still in his mother's womb. It was discovered as young 
Neal was only 20 weeks old and in utero that he had a condition of 
fluid on the brain.
  Without corrective measures he surely would not have survived, so at 
such a critical stage of development doctors opened Neal's mother's 
uterus, and brain surgery was performed on this unborn baby so that 
fluid could not collect on his brain.
  Mr. Speaker, when will we, as a Nation, begin to see this unborn life 
as sacred and valuable and protected as it deserves? Let us bring our 
children and grandchildren into the world where they know that all 
human life, born and unborn, is a miracle and gift from God.
  Not a sermon, just a thought.

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