House Proceeding 01-21-10 on Jan 21st, 2010 :: 1:34:20 to 1:47:50
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Christopher H. Smith: and his leadership on this issue. mr. chairman, i would like to yield the balance of the time to the gentleman from new jersey, our pro-life caucus chair, chris smith. wonderful, eloquent voice for life. mr. smith: i want to thank my good friend and colleague, mr. pitts, for his leadership, for all of us who have spoken.

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Speech By: Christopher H. Smith

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Christopher H. Smith: doc, thank you for your eloquent words. mr. for then berry and mr. cao, jean schmidt. i would like to welcome, the archbishop of the orthodox church of america here. his brother, metropolitan and clergy. they are most welcomed. thank them for their incredible

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Christopher H. Smith: stance in favor of the sanctity and the sacredness of all human life. from womb to tomb that we all need to act as our brothers and sisters' keepers. matthew 25 when the lord said my brethren you do likewise to me, his beat at this tude lives

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Christopher H. Smith: that as -- beattitude as does his church. they do it in a wonderful way. i thank them for their example. it is truly inspiring. mr. speaker, 38 years, and i have been in the pro-life movement for 38 years, the greatest human rights struggle on earth, the right to life movement. what i still don this.

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Christopher H. Smith: how can so many seemingly sane, compassionate, and accomplished people, especially in politics, support, promote, and if president obama has his way in the pending health care legislation, lavishly fund with public dollars the violent death of unborn children wounding of their moms by abortion?

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Christopher H. Smith: is it really so hard to understand that abortion is violence against children? falsely and aggressively marketed as choice, a human right, or health care? how long will we permit the pro-choice cover-up and the bogus safety claims to misinform

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Christopher H. Smith: , especially in light of the reams of evidence documenting serious injury to women who abort. abortion safe? what unmitigated nonsense. women have been profoundly served by the all too f pattern of denial and deception so skillfully employed by the abortion industry.

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Christopher H. Smith: women deserve better. they at the very least deserve the truth. mr. speaker, years ago a friend of mine, dr. jean garten, wrote a book and included how her young child unexpectedly walked ito the room as she was

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Christopher H. Smith: preparing a lecture on abortion. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009,, t gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith, is recognized for the remainder of the hour. mr. smith: i appreciate that. thank you, mr. speaker. let me recap that briefly. many years ago dr. garten wrote a book and she told how her child had burst into the room unexpectedly as she was writing a lecture on abortion.

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Christopher H. Smith: her 3-year-old child took one look at the badly bruced and battered body of the aborted baby on the screen and shouted, mommy, who broke the baby? that young child saw the brutality of abortion with unclouded comprehension. that child was unencumbered and unaffected by the deceptively

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Christopher H. Smith: clever and preposterously misleading propaganda by the multibillion dollar pro-choice industry. that child saw and knew immediately that babies are smashed and broken to bits by abortion. with alarm, that 3-year-old boy wanted to know who did it?

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Christopher H. Smith: last fall, like that young child, abby johnson, a planned parent abortion clinic director in texas, eight years at facility watched an ultrasound imaging of an abortion in progress, of a 3-month-old unborn child, like the victimized baby on the

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Christopher H. Smith: ultrasound monitor being dismembered in real time, right before her eyes, ms. johnson was crushed by what she saw. self-described as extremely pro-choice but now pro-li, she said she watched an unborn child crumble before her very eyes as the infant was dismembered and

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Christopher H. Smith: vacuumed to death by a hideous suction device 20 to 30 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner. . she said, i could try -- see the baby try to i said, what am i doing? never again. she walked out the door of that

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Christopher H. Smith: i remember my wife, marie and i, right outside the supreme court, there were a group of women called the silent no more awareness campaign and these women were telling their stories, very, very powerful stories how they had been hurt emotionally and physically by abortion. one woman told the story how

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Christopher H. Smith: she was actually on the gurney, getting an abortion and the doctor, the abortionist said, it's trying to get away. being only partially sedated, she heard all of that, shotup real quick and said, get me out of here. and they said, it's too late, the abortion has already started.

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Christopher H. Smith: but the child instinctively was trying to get away. we also know from people dr. alvida leaders of the silent no more awareness campaign, a courageous woman who has had two abortions.

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Christopher H. Smith: dr. king is the niece of dr. martin luther king, and she now says, how can my uncle's survive if we murder the children? dr. martin luther king talked of inclusion, not disenfranchising someone by

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Christopher H. Smith: reason of their age condition of dependency or race or by reason of their sex. she now heads up a group that reaches out to women who have had abortions and have and offers the faith, through god and through friendship to come between

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Christopher H. Smith: sense of reconciliation and restoration as a result of the trauma of abortion. said, the abortion clinic operator at planned parenthood, abby johnson, when she walked out and said never again. never again comes too late for

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Christopher H. Smith: the approximately 52 million babies who have been slaughtered in planned parenthood clinics and abortion mills throughout america since the infamous holdings of the supreme court in 1973. 52 mlion babies lost it's staggering, stunning and

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Christopher H. Smith: beyond tragic. but yo know, it doesn't have to come too late for the millions of other children who face extermination tomorrow, next week, next month, next year if we awake from our slumber, from our indifference, from our calous

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Christopher H. Smith: attitude and start to truly combat the cruelty and injustice of abortion. but you know, the the pro-life movement, just like the ex who is now like so many silent no more women speaking doing so courageously, but there's even more to the

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Christopher H. Smith: pro-choice cover-up than just dead kids.n hurts women physically, psychologically. and the data suggests that children subsequently -- last week, mr. speaker, "the times of london"

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Christopher H. Smith: quote, that senior obstetricians a say that new evidence has uncovered a clear link between abortion and mental illnes in women wi no previous history of psychological problems. they found that women who have had abortions had twice the level, twice the level of psychological problems and

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Christopher H. Smith: three times the level depression as women who had given birth or who had never been pregnant. and a 2006, a comprehensive new zealand study found that 78.6%, almost 79% of the 15 to 18-year-olds who had abortions

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Christopher H. Smith: displayed symptoms of major depression compared to 31% o their peers. and it also found that 27% of the 2 to had abortions had suicidal idealization compared to 8% of those who did not have an abortion.

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Christopher H. Smith: i say to my colleagues, there are at least 102 studies that comport with those studies of psychological harm to women who abort. serious questions also remain concerning the link of abortion to breast c despite the fact that more than

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Christopher H. Smith: 28 studies from around the world, including the united states, have shown that procuring an abortion significantly increases the risk of breast cancer by some 30% to 40%. the abortion industry cover-up has largely succeeded in the unconscionable suppression of

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Christopher H. Smith: those facts. nevertheless, according to the breast cancer prevention institute, 2009 year in this debate about abortion and breast cancer and the link. screen studies were published from turkey, china and the united states which matter of

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Christopher H. Smith: factly demonstrate the abortion-breast cancer link as many of the breast cancer factors. for example, the recent u.s. study by jesse dahl of the fred hutchinson cancer institute center demonstrated that the abortion rate and breast cancer risk is 40%. why isn'tthat emblazened across the front page of "the new york times" or "the

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Christopher H. Smith: washington post"? 40%. including janetowling and maurice brenton. amazingly brenton was a chief organizer a 2003 national cancer institute, or n.c.i., workshop now a study that she co-authored reiterates the link and reports them as cons

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Christopher H. Smith: with earlier studies that found endeuced abortion to be a risk factor for breast canc and now even "time" magazine, among many others, has finall reported on another suppressed fact, suppressed by the pro-abortion industry that abortion adversely effects the

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Christopher H. Smith: health of subsequent children born to women who abort. a total of 113 studies demonstrated an association between abortion and preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies. studies have indicated that the risks of preterm birth

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Christopher H. Smith: 36% after just one abortion and a staggering 93% after two or more abortions. similarly, the risk of subsequent children being born with low birth rate by 36% after one and 72% after two or more abortions. prematurity and weight, as we all know, are

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Christopher H. Smith: leading causes of disabilities in children. abortion not only affects the child who is it affects in a very negative way, brothers and sisters born to that same mother in subsequent pregnancies. all of this begs a very serious question, mr. speaker.

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Christopher H. Smith: why then is the obama administration expanding this vicious assault on children often by massively subsidizing pro-abortion, nongovernmental organizations around the world and in the united states to do the dirty work and to do that in the u.s., africa, everywhere?

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Christopher H. Smith: you know, i said at the opening, how could so many seemingly sane, smart, compassionate politicians buy