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Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Floor Speech

By: Phil Roe
By: Phil Roe
Date: Sept. 18, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Abortion

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Mr. ROE of Tennessee. I thank the chairman for yielding.

Madam Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart. Having spent over 30 years as a practicing OB/GYN physician, delivering almost 5,000 babies and trying to save every life of every mother and every baby, I don't see why this is not something that brings us all together.

Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, if a baby survives an abortion, we should do everything we can to save that baby's life and to give it the same chance that everybody else has.

I am getting emotional here because it is an emotional issue for me. I cannot imagine, as a physician, standing beside a baby that has been delivered--no one in this room can; I don't believe there is another person in this room that has done what I have--and not try to save that baby's life.

I strongly support this bill. It should pass overwhelmingly, and it should be the law of the land.

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