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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT August 28, 1970 Page 10 GOVERNMENT LEGISLATES AGAINST IWIVJI United States America LIFE Hecord Congressional PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE ( St CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION No. 138 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1970 Vol. 116 GOVERNMENT AGAINST LIFE HON. JOHN G. SCHMITZ OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Tuesday, August 11, 1970 Mr. SCHMITZ. Mr. Speaker, for many months a nationwide life prevention and elimination campaign has been underway in these United States. Unprecedented in its massive use of the communications media and in its explicit rejection of traditional morality, this campaign has invaded almost every home and school with its strident message: task in this country that our of to is get rid people. The suddenness and vehemence of this assault took most Americas by surprise. In one State after another, legal barriers to the antilife movement crumbled. The crowning horror sn far came in the State of New York where, as of July 1 of this year, any unborn baby may be killed up to 6 months after conception, if its mother wishes, or can be persuaded to ask a doctor to do it. In our own State of California, abortion on demand is already a reality under the fraudulent mental health" clause of the 1967 abortion act, and a bill to remove all State income tax deductions for more than two children has been approved by the revenue and taxation committee of the State senate. Here in Congress, legislation has been introduced in both House and Senate to allow the killing of unborn children throughout the United States, and to remove the Federal personal income tax deduction for all children after the second. Testimony before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce revealed that a bill is pending in the Florida State Legislature which would legalize the killing of old people "euthanasia and that a bill in the Hawaii State Legislature would compel the sterilization of all women after they have their second child. Such legislation heralds the coming of a new Nazism to our land. This is the context in which we must view a major family planning bill, S. 2108, now under consideration by the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Passed by the Senate July 14, without adequate notice, without a single statement in the Record in opposition, and without a rollcall vote, top-prior- ity this bill was rushing through in steamroller fashion with almost nothing but favorable testimony, until a few of us made the House commitee aware of the extent of the opposition. It then had a full and fair hearing on August 7. It is most unlikely that legislation so offensive to the conscience of millions of Americans would ever have received serious consideration were it not for the fears aroused by constant talk of a population explosion. Yet the report of S. 2108 would provide over $1 billion President Nixon's own National Goals from the taxpayers of the United States Research Staff, released in July, confor contraceptive distribution and re- cluded page 60: search. The bill is more notable for what The of population size in the it does not say than for anything it does United question States is not Malthusian. The Issue is not whether we can feed and clothe a say. Nowhere does it define family planning" a phrase which some of its pro- population cf any size we can realistically or even supply it with the expandponents clearly regard as including envisage, amount of energy it may demand . . . abortion and sterilization and which, in ing We have before us a set of decisions. One light of the New York law and others, which appears not to be urgent is that of almost certainly will be so interpreted. overall size of the even population There are no restrictions on the age or the effects of a considerable amount ofafter immarital status of those receiving contra- migration are taken into account. ceptives; one witness at the House comThe report pointed out that if present mittee hearing stated that they could trends continue for just 10 more years, to be and would girls. given our national population growth will stop in described this An opposition witness Entitled Toward Balanced altogether. as my opinion quite rightly putting Growth: With Quantity fornion as Quality, it is record condoning Congress available from the U.S. Government cation and adultery. Brower's Motor Ed Mgr. Jim Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, for $1.50 per copy, for anyone interested in or desiring to verify these statements. There is no population explosion in the United States as a whole, though there may well be too much crowding in a few urban areas. Sheet Metal & Mechanical Jamie Automotive Repairs Co. Inc. Body, Fender & Painting All Kinds and All Makes Painting VW & Congressman John G. Schmitz & Body Work Corvair Specialists 3310 W. 3500 S. Salt Lake City, Utah Ph. 298-091- 0 Keith Belnap YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT AGENT Salt Lake City, Utah I T |