Thu Jan 12, 2023 – 1:51 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A Democrat congresswoman from Texas recently defended partial-birth abortion, claiming that it is “necessary” for parents who are “desperate for a healthy child,” and criticized her state’s pro-life legislation.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who has represented Texas’s 18th congressional district since 1995, spoke during a Morning Hour meeting for the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, where she used her time to condemn pro-life legislation in her state and advocate for killing the unborn.
“I was here when medical procedures for parents who wanted nothing more than a healthy baby were then characterized as a criminal act and called partial-birth abortion,” she began. “I remember the hearings in the judiciary committee, where mothers were crying because of the medical procedure that was necessary to save their life.”
Partial-birth abortion is when a baby is partially delivered safely, at which point the child is gruesomely killed by an abortionist crushing the skull or using a suction to remove the brain of the baby before completing the delivery.
She continued to smear pro-life lawmakers, saying they “again demonize parents who are desperate for a healthy child,” and stated
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