[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 21, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       47TH ANNUAL MARCH FOR LIFE

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, Friday marks the 47th annual March for 
Life. This year's theme is ``Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.'' 
This theme recognizes that 2020 is the centennial anniversary of the 
19th amendment. The earliest feminists regarded abortion as a terrible 
consequence of our society's failure to embrace women's intrinsic 
value. These women instinctively embraced the sanctity of innocent 
human life, even though they could not have foreseen the advances in 
technology that have made it possible for newborn babies to survive at 
earlier and earlier stages of fetal development. Two examples of such 
miracle babies are Micah Pickering of Iowa, born prematurely at 22 
weeks gestation, who is now 7 years old, and Jaden Wesley Morrow, born 
at 23 weeks gestation, who died a few weeks after his birth in Des 
Moines last year. We today celebrate the lives of these miracle babies, 
remember all the others who were lost to abortion, and focus on how 
women are empowered by upholding the dignity of life.

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