Washington D.C., May 21, 2018 / 23:01 pm
The following are excerpts of remarks delivered by Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) on the House floor May 21, 2018. Published with permission:
Last Friday, the Trump Administration announced its intention to reassert and promulgate portions of President Ronald Reagan's modest but necessary life-affirming Title X Rule-a policy designed to ensure that taxpayers don't fund, facilitate or promote abortion in America's $286 million-per-year family planning program.
This new/old policy comes at a time when huge majorities of Americans-over 60 percent according to major polls-strongly oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortion.
The Trump/Reagan policy-now called the Protect Life Rule-comes at a time when the high utilization of ultrasound imaging of the child in the womb has provided spectacular clarity and empathy and love for the baby.