WATCH: Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey at the March for Life

Hi, this is Sean Salai, culture reporter at The Washington Times. 

We are out at the 53rd National March for Life, where we are interviewing pro-life leaders. I’m joined by Congressman Chris Smith, Republican from New Jersey, who just stepped off the stage. 

[SALAI] You mentioned how the abortion pill is baby poison. And a lot of marchers we’ve been talking to today, they’re kind of happy with a lot that the Trump administration has done. They’re pleased that there’s been restrictions on federal funding for abortion. They’re also happy about the investigation announced into Planned Parenthood by the Small Business Administration. 

At the same time, I hear a lot of people saying, “We need to go further. We’d like to see Mifepristone studied, restricted. We’d like to see the telehealth allowance from the Biden administration in 2022 lifted.” So I’m wondering, what do you want to see from the Trump administration this year? 

[SMITH] Sean, all of the above. The abortion pill, which is baby poison, as you pointed out, kills the baby by starvation. It’s a hideous pill and chemical. But we now know, as a result of the most comprehensive study ever done, with almost no bias because they looked at tens of thousands of insurance claims, that about just under 11% of all women who take it have very severe adverse consequences, adverse events, as they call them, including hemorrhaging. They bleed, bleed, these poor women bleeding like this. They get sepsis, which could be life-threatening, and other kinds of anomalies. 

And you know the the lies that were done by Clinton, Obama, and Biden especially, to make it more available by suggesting that it’s one-half of one percent complication rate. That is an absolute, unmitigated lie. Period. It’s not the case, and they did it because people running these sham trials and doing the investigations — I mean there’s almost no reporting by the abortion clinics about consequences from abortions. They never do it. My state doesn’t do it at all, the state of New Jersey. 

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