[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11354]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION

  (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, Congress now has an opportunity to put an end 
to one of the most barbaric acts known to mankind. Amazingly, this 
barbaric act is perfectly legal in the United States of America. This 
horrible act of violence is called partial-birth abortion. Actually it 
is a procedure in which a baby is partially delivered, the doctor 
actually reaches in and turns the baby for a breech birth, and then is 
killed in a procedure too horrible to describe.
  Congress has voted twice to make it illegal, but the previous 
President vetoed it both times. Today we have a new President who will 
do the right thing and make partial-birth abortion illegal, but first 
we have to send him the bill.
  We in the House will have the chance to vote on this bill later this 
summer, and we will do the right thing. It will be up to the other body 
to act. No one knows what they will do.
  It is time to make partial-birth abortion illegal. It should have 
been illegal long ago.

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