[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
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[Pages 10414-10415]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                MR. LAMBORN CONDEMNS TRAGIC ANNIVERSARY

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                           HON. DOUG LAMBORN

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 24, 2007

  Mr. LAMBORN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize but not 
celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legalization of abortion in the 
State of Colorado. On April 25, 1967, the Colorado State Legislature 
passed its first law legalizing abortion. Since the passage of this 
law, hundreds of thousands of Coloradans have lost their lives as a 
direct result. Today the death toll continues to mount in Colorado as 
well as the rest of the country, and with it the tremendous cost to our 
society.
  What would have become of the 50 million Americans whose lives were 
so untimely taken from them? What discoveries will we never

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see? What diseases will never be cured because we allowed these lives 
to be taken? The loss to society, resulting from the perverse logic 
that the life of an ``unplanned'' child does not possess the same value 
as that of any other child, is staggering.
  The most common medical procedure performed in the United States, 
abortion is also a deplorable attack on the health of American women. 
Abortion, though it was legalized in the name of women's health, causes 
immediate medical complications for over 140,000 women a year, 
increases the risk of premature birth in subsequent pregnancies, and 
results in a higher chance of infertility. Furthermore, post-abortion 
syndrome, which is similar to post-traumatic stress disorder, has led 
to untold amounts of suffering among American women. Compared to women 
that give birth, women who abort their unborn children are almost three 
times more likely to require psychological care.
  I believe that our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will one day 
look upon abortion as we now look upon slavery, as an evil so great it 
tore apart the moral fabric of our Nation. While fighting slavery, the 
inhumane scourge of his own era, Frederick Douglass said, ``one and God 
makes a majority.'' Those who fight in the name of life are therefore 
the majority, and will ultimately prevail. I hope and pray that I will 
never again have to observe this dark anniversary, and promise that I 
will continue to do everything in my power to protect innocent lives 
and the well-being of women.

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