[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           PLANNED PARENTHOOD

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, it is painful to hear the words in the 
recently released video showing Planned Parenthood trafficking in body 
parts.
  At one point, the doctor talks about a customer wanting ``lower 
extremities,'' that is legs in everyday language.
  ``I don't know what they are going to do with it. Maybe they want 
muscle,'' she says.
  These are legs that will never run to a mom or a dad, never run to a 
brother or a sister, never run to a spouse, never run to protect 
another child.
  It has been 42 years since the Supreme Court did what Justice White 
called an exercise of raw judicial power. Since then, we have seen more 
than 55 million abortions in this country; yet we are still shocked by 
what these videos show.
  This is a teaching moment, Mr. Speaker. There is a lot of pain 
implicit in these videos, pain for kids, pain for moms, pain for dads 
and families. Perhaps these videos can become the moment where our 
Nation can begin to heal that pain.
  Stopping taxpayer dollars flowing to organizations responsible for 
this horror is a good place to start that healing.

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