[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6937]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           THE GOSNELL TRIAL

  (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, justice was served in 
Philadelphia when a monster by the name of Dr. Kermit Gosnell was 
convicted of the murder of three small babies in his abortion clinic. 
Each and every life is precious, Mr. Speaker, and murdering an innocent 
baby for the sake of convenience or greed is terribly, terribly wrong.
  In the last 40 years, Mr. Speaker, the lives of over 50 million young 
babies have been taken. How do we know that God did not place in the 
lives of these individuals a cure for cancer, a cure for Alzheimer's, a 
cure for Parkinson's? We won't know that until eternity. We grieve over 
those losses.
  May I quote Thomas Jefferson, Mr. Speaker, for the sake of our 
Nation:

       God, who gave us life, gives us liberty. Can liberties of a 
     nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these 
     liberties are a gift of God? Indeed, I tremble for my country 
     when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot 
     sleep forever.

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