[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 110 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF CAROL CLEWS

  (Mr. HARRIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HARRIS. Madam Speaker, I rise today to commemorate Carol Clews, a 
pro-life leader in Maryland who passed away from cancer this spring. 
Archbishop Lori, without exaggeration, called her a ``towering figure'' 
in the pro-life movement.
  Carol's vocation was to help women in their crisis pregnancies by 
directing the faith-based Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy 
Concerns, where pregnant women could go for support until and after 
their children were born. Her pregnancy center, staffed mostly by 
volunteers, helped thousands of women and their children in a time of 
need.
  When the City of Baltimore decreed that her pregnancy center had to 
display a poster that promoted abortion, she refused to do so and took 
the case to Federal district court, where she prevailed. On appeal, the 
Fourth Circuit upheld the important religious protections and free 
speech rights of pregnancy centers from attacks by pro-abortion 
governments that want to deny the choice of life for women during one 
of the most vulnerable times of their lives.
  The pro-life and pregnancy center movements in Maryland will greatly 
miss Carol Clews and her faith and courage. The thousands of women and 
their children who were helped by her pregnancy centers are her legacy.

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