Derrick Van Orden: “If I did not render medical aid to the best of my ability…”

“I was a combat medic in the United States Navy SEAL teams for over two decades. And if I had encountered an enemy combatant that was injured on the battlefield, and I have, If I did not render medical aid to the best of my ability, up to and including to the detriment of my own troops, I would be subject to prosecution. When we talk about the most innocent amongst us, unborn children who survived the most traumatic circumstances imaginable, an attempted abortion, when we say, as a body that we will not render medical aid to that human child, we are less of a people.” (00:28–00:43)

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