Rep. Roy statement on apparent infanticide in D.C.

WASHINGTON— Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Chip Roy released the below statement following reports that five viable babies, apparently killed in late abortions, were recovered in Washington, D.C.

Last week, I was horrified and disgusted at the images of five unborn children who appeared to be aborted illegally in our nation’s capital. That disgust has only grown with the new images of more than 100 other children — all at various stages of development, none of whom were given even a chance.

Make no mistake, the images are disturbing and chilling to the soul – to who we are as human beings, but we should not look away. They reveal the uncomfortable truth of abortion. These are human beings — our fellow Americans.

These children were murdered by abortion. Some of them, it appears, were killed outside the already too-permissive bounds of the law. Unfortunately, we know that nothing will be done.

Abortion is legal up until birth in our nation’s capital and the District government’s pro-abortion stance is well-known.

Unsurprisingly, D.C. has already announced that it would not perform autopsies to see if any of the children in question were murdered outside of the womb — a violation of The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

These children’s voices were silenced before they could speak, but their memory cries out for justice. The DOJ should investigate this immediately, and when Republicans take back Congress, we must reassert Congress’s constitutional power over Washington D.C. to protect human life.

May God have mercy on this nation.

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