No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2015
Floor Speech
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Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania. I thank the gentleman.
Madam Speaker, make no mistake about what this debate is about. H.R.
7 codifies that no taxpayer money would be given for abortions.
But the real debate on the floor today is about life. We are talking
about life in the people's House, on the floor of the people's House.
We are talking about a gift from God. We are talking about something
that was so well put into our Declaration of Independence--life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the first of those being life. I
understand that there is a serious debate about that.
There are times that people say: Listen, we are not really ready
right now for this child. But expectant mothers and unborn children
have got to be protected. My goodness, in a nation that recoils at the
news around the world, at the loss of life, and says this is horrible
what is happening in Syria, this is horrible what is happening in the
Mideast, this is horrible that this is happening, then we want to go
there, and we want to rush to help people because there is a loss of
life, and then in our own country we have turned a blind eye and a deaf
ear to the loss of 56 million unborn children. These are lives that
were lost that did not have to be lost.
I know there is a law that says they have the right to make that
decision. It may be legal, but I don't think it is right.
As far as giving a gift to the 500,000 or so people that are in
Washington today in the pro-life march, this is not a gift from the
Republican Party to these people. This is a gift from our Creator,
Himself, on reproduction. How we have demeaned this and reduced it down
to a political discussion is absolutely abhorrent.
Never, never has this country ever turned its back on the most
vulnerable.
I have been there for the birth of my four children. I have 10
grandchildren now. I have also held the hands of my mother, my father,
and my sister as they died. There is nothing more precious than life.
There is just nothing more precious than that.
I ask all my colleagues to vote in favor of H.R. 7 to answer the
American people who say we do not want to fund abortion, to end this
debate, and let's move forward.
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