[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7614]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       LIFE IS NOT ABOUT DISTANCE

  (Mr. LANKFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANKFORD. Mr. Speaker, 1 year ago, our justice system gave us a 
new definition for life. Convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell, the 
abortionist who for decades worked in Philadelphia, who personally 
killed hundreds of children in the womb, who personally kept body parts 
in bags and bottles that were scattered all around his clinic, he was 
not tried for that. Those things were all permitted.
  One year ago this week that court clarified their definition of 
``life.'' It wasn't about conception. It wasn't about age. It wasn't 
about ability to survive. It was about distance. ``Life'' was defined 
by distance for them.
  Kermit Gosnell had the audacity to induce the labor of pregnant women 
and then take the child outside the womb, move them about 3 feet away, 
whether on his hands or set them on a table, and cut their spinal cord, 
sitting on the table, where they would die either on his hands or on 
the table. He moved them 3 feet. What tortured logic is that to say it 
is not a child in the womb, but it is a child if you move them 3 feet?
  This is the United States of America. Life is not about distance. 
Life is about children. Let's choose life.

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