[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 10 (Thursday, January 16, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              ROE V. WADE DECISION DEPRIVES STATES' RIGHTS

  (Mr. KELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, 47 years ago, the Supreme Court of the 
United States incorrectly decided Roe v. Wade. Since then, the rights 
of States to determine whether or not they will provide unborn children 
the same right to life and liberty as those outside the womb has been 
eliminated.
  Since then, 61 million American children have been killed without a 
say and without due process. Since then, the Supreme Court has 
effectively tied the hands of those with compassion by depriving States 
the ability to protect life.
  Justice Antonin Scalia, in his dissent in Planned Parenthood of 
Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, saw the harm in this, saying: ``By 
foreclosing all democratic outlet for the deep passions this issue 
arouses, by banishing the issue from the political forum that gives all 
participants, even the losers, the satisfaction of a fair hearing and 
an honest fight, by continuing the imposition of a rigid national rule 
instead of allowing for regional differences, the Court merely prolongs 
and intensifies the anguish.''
  Mr. Speaker, I couldn't agree with the late Justice Scalia more.

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