Joshua Feuerstein, Republican Senator from Oklahoma, gave this courageous and profound speech on the Senate floor. May his voice spread across the nation and God touch the hearts of all who hear so this murder of innocents will stop.
I would like to speak about a subject that is very very difficult for me to speak about. Quite frankly, difficult for a lot of Americans to talk about or hear about. It connects to all of us in extremely personal ways. Let me set some context.
Not long ago a group of animal rights activists gathered around a research facility that was using animals for their testing. The activists gathered around the facility and chanted and had signs that they held up saying "It's not science it's violence." And other signs that said, "Animal lives are their right, we have just begun to fight" as they protested to protect the lives of the animals that were being used in that facility for research.
I understand their frustration there but let me put it in the context of some things that came out this week. We understand that this week and organization called Planned Parenthood is using children that are aborted and sending the bodies of those aborted children to research facilities sometimes for sale (different body parts) to be used in research. These are not mice; these are not lab rats. These are children; children that have gone through the horrific process of abortion.
This morning in an appropriations hearing the President and I both were in we had an extensive conversation about the rights of Oracle whales. And this protracted conversation went on and on that many people also were connected to about the rights of Oracle whales and the care for them. And then we had a protracted conversation about horse slaughter and how horses would be humanely put down.
But in the middle of all that conversation happening today, there were still children being aborted with an instrument reaching into a mother, tearing apart a child, but carefully protecting certain organs because those organs would be valuable to sell.
Now the challenge we have on this as a nation is, the argument is for that baby that it is really not a baby. It's just a fetus, it's tissue. It's not a human baby is what everyone is told. That's just tissue and it's up to the mom to determine what happens to that tissue. And then on the flip side of it, moments later they take that tissue and sell it because it's human organs that are needed for research. You can't say in one moment "that's not a human" and then sell it for the next moment as a human organ and say now suddenly it is. It was a human all the way through. There was never a time that wasn't a child. There was never a time that wasn't a human. And it seems to me the ultimate irony that we spend time talking about humane treatment of animals being put down, like in horse slaughter, and we completely miss children being ripped apart in the womb and their body parts being sold.
So here's how it happens. A mom comes into a facility, gives consent to have an abortion and makes that request. After that request is made, to some moms (and we don't know exactly how they choose) to some moms they then ask for consent for their child after it's aborted to be used for research purposes. From the video that was put out this week they said that was actually comforting to some moms that they would know how traumatic the abortion is, that at least some good would come out of it, that body parts would be used for research to hopefully save other children. Which again comes back to that ultimate irony that we would literally tear one child apart in an abortion with the assumption that it would hopefully help some other child in the future, missing out on the significance of the child that's right there that could be helped by protecting their life.
And then the doctor on this particular video gives the details how once they get that consent from the mom they would be careful to reach in and actually crush the head of the child to kill the child in the womb so they could conserve the rest of the organs; because the kidney has value, the liver has value, the lungs have value, the muscles in the legs have value. I would tell you that child has value.
Every single adult that can hear me right now was once twenty weeks old in the womb. And we can look at each other and understand the difference between that child in the womb and any of us now is time. That's a human being we're talking about. And it doesn't give me comfort to think that one child is torn apart so they can do research on the child's organs and in some future time help a different child.
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