[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26545]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            ENACT STUPAK-PITTS AMENDMENT ON HEALTH CARE BILL

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, each year, Planned Parenthood 
kills more than 300,000 children by abortion, yet yesterday another 
Planned Parenthood director resigned over abortion. Abby Johnson, 
director of a clinic in College Station, Texas, said she had a change 
of heart while watching an ultrasound of an actual abortion in real-
time.
  Self-described as ``extremely pro-choice'' but now pro-life, she said 
she knew it was time to quit in September when she watched an unborn 
child ``crumble'' as the baby was vacuumed, dismembered, and destroyed.
  Many, including and especially self-described extremely pro-choice 
Americans like Abby Johnson, are beginning to recognize the ultra-ugly 
truth about abortion--it kills babies and wounds their mothers. Thus, 
we must protect both victims of abortion by enacting the Stupak-Pitts 
amendment to the health care bill.
  I appeal to the Democrat leadership, make the Stupak amendment in 
order, and, please, no phony compromises, because there is nothing 
benign or compassionate about abortion.

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