[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 9 (Monday, January 23, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H93]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION

  (Mr. BARTON of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in the spring of 1981, I was 
applying for the White House Fellow's Program, which is a program where 
you work for the President of the United States for 1 year in one of 
the executive agencies like the Department of Energy or the Department 
of State. Our regional seminar was in Austin, Texas, at the LBJ School 
of Government. We had a lunch, and I sat at lunch with Hillary Rodham 
Clinton and a lady name Sarah Weddington, who was the lead attorney in 
the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case. Little did I know then, back in 
1981, that that case would still be the law of the land.
  Today, thousands of people from all over the United States came to 
protest that court case and asked the Congress to help overturn it.
  I'm a lifetime 95 percent pro-life voting Member, and I pledged to 
the crowd on the Mall that I would do everything I could in Congress to 
help overturn that decision. Life is precious. Life begins at 
conception, and we need to recognize that in the Congress of the United 
States.

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