dr.s giobilini and minerva's article must serve as a wake-up call. the lives of young children who are truly the most unprotected class of individuals in our society are under assault. hard questions need to be asked and answered and defenders of life must be mobilized. i truly believe we have a duty to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable from violence, and now even the hospital nursery is not a place of refuge or sanctuary. madam speaker, we must strife for consistency. why do so many -- and i have been here, madam speaker, for 32 years, and i work every single day of my congressional life on human rights issues. from human trafficking to religious freedom, i have written the trafficking victims protect action in 2000 to combat human slavery. i work against torture whenever and wherever it rears its horrific head, especially in places like china, north korea and elsewhere. but i am left to wonder why so many who claim to be proponents of human rights systematically dehumanize and exdude the weakest and the most vulnerable human beings from l