[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6588]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       IN SUPPORT OF THE PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the Pain-Capable 
Unborn Child Protection Act, which would restrict the practice of 
abortion after the sixth month of an unborn child's life.
  Today marks the second anniversary of the conviction of Dr. Kermit 
Gosnell of Pennsylvania, who ran a late-term abortion mill in 
Philadelphia. Despite media silence about the case, we were able to 
learn that Dr. Gosnell regularly delivered third-trimester babies and 
then snipped their spinal cords, their necks, with scissors.
  He used unclean instruments, spreading infections among the women he 
treated, hospitalizing many of them, if he even allowed an ambulance to 
be called. Most of his victims were poor. One mother, a Ms. Mongar, 
died in the process.
  It seems that some Members of this body want to regulate things like 
lightbulbs and rainwater and farm dust, but leave women helpless before 
the Dr. Gosnells of the world, late-term abortionists driven by profit, 
undeterred by the painful death of countless innocent lives.
  We must protect these women and children by passing the bill.

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