[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5961-5962]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE GOSNELL TRIAL

  (Mrs. BACHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BACHMANN. Mr. Speaker, it's difficult for me to even speak about 
this subject today. I'm a woman who's been privileged to give birth to 
5 children, and I've also taken 23 children

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into my home as foster children. It's very hard for me to imagine, Mr. 
Speaker, that a doctor in this country, a doctor who took an oath to do 
no harm, would, in fact, kill a woman at his abortion clinic and he 
would sever the heads of four babies that were born alive--and 
potentially others--and commit one gruesome act after another.
  Shamelessly, the mainstream media has all but gone silent and failed 
to cover this horrific violence against women.
  No one, Democrat or Republican, believes in violence against women. 
We abhor it. But there's nothing that even comes close to what's 
happened in this abortion clinic in Pennsylvania. The officials in 
Pennsylvania and the State Department of Health, unfortunately--it 
appears, willfully--ignored this heinous crime. It also appears that 
this has been ignored now across our Nation.
  Well, we won't ignore it. And I thank God for the men who stood up 
here today to stand for women and against violence against women. I 
lend my voice and my support to that effort as well.

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