[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 182]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TIME TO STAND UP FOR LIFE

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, as a family physician for more than 30 
years, I've had the privilege of delivering hundreds of babies. I have 
witnessed the miracle of life itself firsthand, and I believe that 
every human life at any stage is unique and fully deserving of my 
protection as a physician. The authority of our government should stand 
behind the protection of human life.
  I am proud to be from Louisiana, a State recently ranked number one 
on life issues by Americans United for Life. Louisiana has implemented 
some commonsense protections, including a requirement that any woman 
seeking an abortion must understand how that unborn child is 
developing, the pain her child will experience during the abortion, and 
the facts about risks and the alternatives to abortion.
  Louisiana has banned partial birth abortion and prohibits abortion 
providers from getting taxpayer dollars to pay for abortion services. 
We are making progress.
  But abortion still happens. In the last 39 years, there have been 
more than 54 million babies terminated. This is a heart-breaking 
number, and it is past time to end this scourge and protect human life 
from conception to natural death.

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