[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17700]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         GENOCIDAL HEALTH CARE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Fortenberry) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. FORTENBERRY. Madam Speaker, recently the Secretary of State 
appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and confirmed that 
it is the administration's goal to include abortion as an integral 
element of ``reproductive health care'' provided by the United States 
overseas. This hearing came on the heels of the Secretary's words of 
praise for Margaret Sanger as a personal heroine. Margaret Sanger was a 
notorious American eugenicist who advocated tirelessly for policies to 
eliminate persons she deemed inferior and unworthy to live, namely the 
poor, the immigrant, and the black child.
  While the Secretary at the hearing did rightfully deplore the racist 
comments attributed to Margaret Sanger, the administration's policies 
regrettably continue to champion abortion both here and abroad. This 
continues despite the fact that more and more Americans oppose the 
practice, let alone using taxpayer dollars to fund it, or imposing it 
on persons across the world who may be weaker and more vulnerable.
  Margaret Sanger's world view should shock the conscience and evoke 
equal condemnation from thoughtful persons on both sides of the aisle.
  Madam Speaker, for this reason, I was stunned to learn that in a July 
12 interview with the New York Times, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader 
Ginsburg echoed the sentiments of Sanger. While explaining the outcome 
of Harris v. McRae, a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Hyde 
amendment, which disallows Medicaid funding for abortions, Justice 
Ginsburg said this, ``frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was 
decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly 
growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.''
  Madam Speaker, did you hear those words? Justice Ginsburg, I repeat, 
actually said this, ``There was concern about population growth and 
particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many 
of.''
  Madam Speaker, to whom was Justice Ginsburg referring? Who would 
Justice Ginsburg prefer to not have live? It is unfathomable that in 
this day and age, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court would 
articulate such a patently genocidal sentiment.
  This is more of the same discredited, amoral philosophy of social 
engineering that offers no comfort, no vision of the common bond of all 
humanity, particularly for those who are weak and vulnerable among us.
  Madam Speaker, it is with a very heavy heart that I have to say such 
things. I know we have come much further than this in our society. 
Millions of Americans believe that we are big enough and loving enough 
as a Nation to embrace the mother and her unborn child and truly care 
for life. We can do better. We must do better. Women deserve better 
than abortion, and America deserves better from its leaders.

                          ____________________