[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7091]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   THE INNOCENT AND THE INCONVENIENT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of 
January 3, 2013, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith) is 
recognized for 55 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank the Speaker.
  With the recent murder conviction of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, 
we've got to encourage Americans to ask: How different, really, is 
Gosnell's house of horrors from abortions that occur in clinics 
throughout the United States? The tragic answer: not much. Not much at 
all.
  Mr. Speaker, there are Kermit Gosnells all over America--predators, 
child abusers, exploiters of women. Some abortionists may have cleaner 
sheets than Gosnell did and better sterilized equipment and better 
trained accomplices, but what they do and what Gosnell did for four 
decades--kill babies and hurt women--is the same.
  Will Americans ever be told the horrifying details as to how and how 
often abortionists dismember, decapitate, and chemically poison 
innocent babies?
  Where is the outrage, Mr. Speaker, over the 55 million child victims 
who have been brutally killed by abortion over the last 40 years and 
over the millions of women who have been hurt physically, emotionally, 
and psychologically?
  Why the appalling lack of compassion? Why the empathy deficit for the 
victims--women and children--by so many, including and especially by 
President Obama and Vice President Biden? Women and children deserve 
better.
  Of course, Gosnell's trial isn't the first to rip the benign facade 
of legitimacy from the abortion industry. As far back as 1975, Dr. 
Kenneth Edelin was convicted by a jury in Boston of murdering an 
African American baby boy who was found dead and abandoned in the 
Boston City Hospital morgue.

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  An investigation that led to trial revealed that the child was yet 
another Kenneth Edelin victim. When the jury saw the picture of the 
dead baby, they were appalled and persuaded that indeed a homicide had 
occurred. Astonishingly, that conviction was subsequently overturned by 
the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which simply dismissed the murder as 
yet another legal abortion.
  Mr. Speaker, how did Planned Parenthood react to the reversal of 
verdict? With euphoric celebration. Dr. Edelin, after all, was their 
guy. Years later, Dr. Edelin became the chairman of the board of 
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and was even given the 
Margaret Sanger Award in 2008. And I would note parenthetically that in 
2009, Planned Parenthood gave the Sanger Award to Hillary Clinton. And 
like Gosnell, not a single tear was shed by Dr. Kenneth Edelin or 
Planned Parenthood for the murdered child victim.
  Last week, Mr. Speaker, an undercover investigative organization, 
Live Action, released more undercover videos that exposed the abortion 
industry's absolutely appalling and callous disregard for human life, 
human rights, and Federal law. Previously, Live Action aired several 
videos showing Planned Parenthood abortion clinic personnel advising 
women at several clinics throughout the country, including in my own 
home State of New Jersey, as to how to procure sex-selection abortions 
simply because the unborn child happened to be a little girl and other 
equally disturbing videos showing Planned Parenthood staffers who 
counsel and offer to arrange secret abortions for teenager sex 
trafficking victims.
  One of those was in a Planned Parenthood where I went to high school 
in Perth Amboy. A very young Latina, 14, 15, posing as a woman who had 
been trafficked with a man that was posing as a pimp, talks--and I 
advise and ask people to watch those videos. Just go to Live Action. 
Google it, and you can find it. Watch how they say, We cannot only 
abort this young girl who has been trafficked--and I wrote, Mr. 
Speaker, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 to combat this 
hideous modern-day exploitation mostly of women and children. And 
there's Planned Parenthood personnel saying how this young girl could 
get a secret abortion, be back out on the streets and, of course, 
further exploited by this person who purported to be a pimp.
  The first call should have been to the police to have them arrested; 
instead, they talked about how to get the secret abortion.
  Live Action has released undercover videos showing a Bronx, New York, 
abortion counselor describing how, in violation of U.S. Federal law, a 
born-alive baby would be placed in a jar of toxic solution to ensure 
his or her death.
  A D.C. abortionist is also captured on film who talks about leaving a 
baby born alive after a botched abortion simply to die due to the 
elements.
  An Arizonan worker said that they would not resuscitate should a baby 
survive an abortion attempt.
  This is not just violence against children; this is a violation of 
Federal law.
  Live Action President Lila Rose has released yet another must-see 
video of a Maryland abortionist by the name of Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who 
compares a baby in the womb--you've got to watch this--to meat in a 
slow cooker and jokes about his abortion toolkit, complete with pickax 
and drill bit. I watched that, and I was sick. This man does so-called 
``legal abortions'' right within range of this Nation's capital.
  Mr. Speaker, some day--and I believe the day is fast approaching--
Americans will look back and wonder how and why such a seemingly 
enlightened society, so blessed and endowed with education, advanced 
science, information, and wealth, opportunity could have so utterly 
failed to protect the innocent and the inconvenient. They will wonder 
how and why a Nobel Peace Prize winning President could also have 
simultaneously been the abortion President and Planned Parenthood's 
best friend, despite the tragic fact that Planned Parenthood is 
directly responsible for aborting over 6 million babies in their 
clinics.
  History will not look favorably on today's abortion culture. We must 
instead work tirelessly to replace it with a culture of life. Women and 
children deserve no less.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

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