[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 172]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  BORN ALIVE SURVIVORS PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, Thomas Jefferson, whose words 
marked the beginning of this Nation, said: ``The care of human life and 
its happiness, and not its destruction, is the chief and only object of 
good government.''
  Yet, Mr. Speaker, 43 years ago, our Supreme Court mandated abortion 
on demand in America, and 57 million innocent little American babies 
have since been slaughtered before seeing the light of day in this, the 
land of the free and the home of brave.
  Mr. Speaker, this House passed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors 
Protection Act months ago to protect helpless children who survive 
abortion and are born alive. Yet at this very moment, that bill to 
protect born-alive children languishes in the United States Senate for 
lack of six Democrat votes and a veto threat by Barack Obama.
  It is time for the President of the United States and each Senator 
and all of us, as Americans, to ask ourselves in our own hearts if this 
is who we truly are.

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