[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12159]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        FIGHTING FOR THE UNBORN

  (Mr. GUINTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUINTA. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today with a heavy heart.
  Recently, videos have been released showing senior employees at 
Planned Parenthood discussing a horrific topic: the proper way to 
preserve the heart, liver, and lungs of a child during an abortion in 
order to harvest those organs for sale.
  Consider the illogical nature of the conclusion that an infant is not 
a life, that an infant is not worthy of preservation, but the organs, 
which give it life, are worthy enough to be kept and sold.
  Pro-life or not, this should strike at the conscience of every human 
being, and, in a larger sense, it should strike at the conscience of a 
nation that this practice is permitted and allowed.
  Following the release of these videos, House leadership called for an 
investigation into Planned Parenthood, which I commend and fully 
support.
  I am often asked back home if I consider myself pro-life and, if so, 
why. My answer to them is simple: I will never forget hearing my 
daughter's heartbeat for the first time. That heartbeat had a name, and 
its name was Colby.

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