[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 77 (Tuesday, June 4, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E783]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO SARAH CURTIS

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 4, 2013

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I am privileged to interact with some of the 
brightest students in the 22nd Congressional District who serve on my 
Congressional Youth Advisory Council. I have gained much by listening 
to the high school students who are the future of this great nation. 
They provide important insight into the concerns of our younger 
constituents and hopefully get a better sense of the importance of 
being an active participant in the political process. Many of the 
students have written short essays on a variety of topics and I am 
pleased to share these with my House colleagues.
  Sarah Curtis is a junior at George Ranch High School in Fort Bend 
County, Texas. Her essay topic is: Select an important event that has 
occurred in the past 50 years and explain how that event has changed 
our country.
  Within the past 50 years, our nation has seen great divides socially 
created by monumental governmental decisions. In the year 1973, the law 
allowed legal abortions within the United States passed under the court 
ruling of Roe v. Wade. By creating this abominable law that now 
prohibits state and federal unrecognizing of the law, new corporations 
have begun to boom, those such as Planned Parenthood. Morally and 
ethically wrong, a law that allows the legality of the killing of our 
unborn is practically manslaughter and an unjust crime against 
humanity. This court ruling has created such a massive divide within 
our country that even politics are being decided through this law. 
Liberals have taken a more pro-choice (proabortion) stance while the 
conservatives of the U.S. take a more pro-life (against abortion) 
stand. Even those who see this law as a sacrilegious act against God 
have recognized the monstrosity situation this has become. Religious 
leaders, as of recently, have been forced, under Obama Care to offer 
abortions, even though it goes against everything they morally believe. 
Our country has been known in the past to be the ``promised land'' or 
``the land of the free'', but forcing laws down everybody's throats and 
creating a divide between our own people not exactly unite us united 
against one cause, but rather against each other for different causes. 
Because of one court decision 40 years ago, the repercussions are still 
being dealt with today with the killing of the innocent and unborn 
being so normal and legal. Roe v. Wade may have been a court case about 
one woman claiming to have been raped, and wanting to legally have an 
abortion, but she was not raped, and ended up having the child before 
the case ever appeared in court anyway. So what was the point of one 
woman's want to not have a child costing our nation nearly 800,000 
unborn children per year.

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