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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HONORING HOLOCAUST VICTIMS
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Kansas (Mr. Marshall) for 5 minutes.
Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 6 million Jewish
men, women, and children who were violently murdered for their
religious beliefs by the Nazi regime.
This week remembers the victims who lost their lives to this evil
regime and honors the survivors who beat the unthinkable odds.
Sonia Warshawski, a Kansan from Overland Park, was a young teenager
when Nazi Germany invaded her home in Poland. She was imprisoned,
locked inside a Nazi concentration camp, and then later sent to the
Auschwitz death camp. There, she saw human hatred in a way many of us
today cannot comprehend.
Sonia tells a story of waking up each day suffering from starvation
and seeing thousands of bodies stacked where she was imprisoned. She
watched as her mother was forced into a gas chamber. And still, through
this torture and through it all, she never gave up hope or abandoned
her faith.
Sonia will not forget the hatred and horrific injustice that the
murderous Nazi regime put her and millions of others through in the
name of anti-Semitism and neither will this country.
As the most well-documented genocide in human history, a genocide
documented and confirmed by General Eisenhower, the evil and
unimaginable torture throughout the Holocaust will forever haunt us. We
must never tolerate or overlook anti-Semitism in any form.
In 2017, I had an emotional experience at the Holocaust museum in
Israel with my wife. There, we met and heard from many survivors and
walked through the Hall of Names honoring the 6 million victims of the
Holocaust.
Sadly, we have recently seen the ugly face of anti-Semitism rearing
its ugly head. We must continue to fight it with full force. It should
be made abundantly clear to those with this deep hatred of Jewish
people in their heart that this country has zero tolerance for this
type of evil.
Mr. Speaker, I stand with the survivors like Sonia and those who lost
their lives during the darkest days in the history of our world, and I
stand against anti-Semitism.
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Judicial Overreach
Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss my disappointment
at the judicial overreach by my home State's supreme court this past
Friday.
In a 6-1 vote, the radical Kansas courts ruled the State's
constitution guarantees unlimited rights to an abortion. This verdict
came in response to a 2015 State law that prohibits performing a
dismemberment abortion procedure in the second trimester, except when
necessary to save the life of the mother. Two doctors who performed
this barbaric and painful procedure in the second trimester of
pregnancy have challenged the law.
As someone who has dedicated my career to bringing life into this
world and has delivered 5,000 babies in my home State of Kansas, please
forgive me and allow me to be graphic for just a moment.
This horrid procedure literally tears the live baby apart limb by
limb in the womb and then evacuates the dismembered baby body parts one
at a time from the uterus. Then the person who performs the procedure
pieces these parts back together to make sure they have removed the
entire baby. This very pain-capable baby literally bleeds to death to
end its life.
Sadly, the method is used today in 95 percent of second trimester
abortions, even though the child's heart is beating and the baby is
breathing and, as I said earlier, is quite capable of feeling pain. It
is despicable, and this procedure should be banned nationwide.
It sickens me to the core that the Kansas Supreme Court violated the
sanctity of life and voted to deny the rights of the unborn in our
State.
Today, I call upon our State legislators to quickly pass a
constitutional amendment that overrules and protects these precious
babies.
Many of us have fought our whole life to defend the unborn. Now, we
must all fight harder than ever. I ask for you to fight alongside me.
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