[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6661]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  NO TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR ABORTION ACT

  (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, I rise today to just thank my 
colleagues for voting so overwhelmingly for H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer 
Funding for Abortion Act.
  America today is solidly pro-life and the trend line tangibly 
improves by the year. On public funding, a supermajority of well over 
60 percent oppose public funding of abortion. Clearly, Americans get 
it. There is nothing compassionate, benign, or nurturing about 
abortion. Abortion methods, the actual deed of dismemberment, chemical 
poisoning or suction is an act of violence against children.
  Abortion also hurts women. Earlier today in the Capitol, we heard 
from Nancy Tanner, a woman from Silent No More Awareness Campaign, who 
eloquently urged passage of H.R. 3. Ms. Tanner spoke of her abortion 
and the emotional agony that she has endured and noted that well over 
10,000 women have come forward and now have spoken out publicly against 
abortion. Each and every one of those women have had at least one 
abortion themselves, and they talk of the ongoing and enduring agony of 
that abortion.
  I want to, again, thank my colleagues for supporting the No Taxpayer 
Funding for Abortion Act.

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