[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16425]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   BORN ALIVE INFANTS PROTECTION ACT

  (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, ever since Roe v. Wade, Americans have 
debated the question, When does life begin? Some of us believe it 
starts at conception, others at viability, and others, amazingly, not 
until birth.
  But once a baby has been born, everyone agrees life has begun, and 
this baby is a new human being with all his or her God-given rights.
  Well, what was once obvious seems to have been called into question 
lately. The Supreme Court shocked America recently by ruling that 
States may not ban partial birth abortions. Now we are hearing stories 
of children being born alive in abortion clinics and then left to die.
  H.R. 4292, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, codifies in law 
that, once a baby is born, it is legally alive. Unbelievably, the 
National Abortion Rights Action League and their allies call this a 
renewed assault on Roe. What they really mean to say is that, when a 
doctor botches an abortion and the child is born alive, the doctor 
should still have the right to kill it. How far we have fallen, Mr. 
Speaker?

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