[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 12, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H2206-H2207]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       RECOGNIZING PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Good) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to recognize the 
incredible lifesaving care provided by pregnancy resource centers 
across the country.
  Thanks to the 2,700 pregnancy resource centers in the United States, 
mothers looking for help, hope, and healing have a safe place they can 
turn to.
  In my own district, Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, we have 
10 outstanding centers where lives are saved and mothers are given new 
hope.
  To recognize the exceptional work they do, I have introduced a 
resolution designating the week of November 8 as

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National Pregnancy Center Week, highlighting the vital role that 
pregnancy resource centers play in helping mothers and families.
  As a result of their work, young lives will be given the opportunity 
to live, grow up, and work in our great Nation.
  Despite there being over three times as many pregnancy resource 
centers as abortion centers in the United States, sadly, most Americans 
are more familiar with the anti-life groups like Planned Parenthood 
because my colleagues on the other side of the aisle stumble over each 
other to throw taxpayer money in their direction.
  Without pregnancy resource centers, millions more babies would be 
murdered by the scourge of radical anti-life groups under the guise of 
family planning.
  To all those who selflessly serve in pregnancy resource centers, I 
thank you for your lifesaving work.
  Mr. Speaker, no more fundamental right than the right to life exists 
in our country and in our world today, and there is no more fundamental 
responsibility of government than the responsibility to defend the most 
vulnerable among us, and that includes innocent, precious life in the 
womb.
  Everyone knows abortion is wrong. The clear science shows us that it 
is the taking of innocent life in the womb. The only question is what 
priority we will give that unborn, precious life in the womb.
  Thankfully, our country has an admirable history of correcting civil 
and social injustice. The glaring exception is the ultimate injustice 
of abortion.
  I pray that we will soon correct this injustice, and I believe that 
history will rightly condemn those who stood on the wrong side on this 
issue. I pray that we will correct the injustice of abortion, which has 
tragically taken the lives of some 70 million unborn children.

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