[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 201 (Thursday, November 18, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                RECOGNIZING THE INTERCESSORS FOR AMERICA

  Mrs. HYDE-SMITH. Madam President, for many years, thousands of 
members of the Intercessors for America--IFA--have been devoted to 
prayer and fasting in the name of protecting the unborn and of ending 
abortion. The IFA was founded in 1973 in an era when our Nation 
experienced turmoil within the political, moral, and traditional values 
that are the cornerstone of our Nation.
  In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its divisive landmark decision 
in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion and shocking the majority of 
Americans. IFA has worked since then to mobilize our Nation to pray for 
the protection of innocent life and to find unity among the cultural 
conflicts in our country. Today, IFA is a national organization of 
millions of like-minded people who are steadfast in praying for God's 
support and guidance for our Nation's executive, legislative, and 
judicial branches of government.
  I thank the members of IFA for their dedication, prayers, and fasting 
in support of the sanctity of life. Their work has helped increase 
awareness for the pro-life movement and its overarching goal to defend 
the unborn. It is the decades of prayer and hard work of so many pro-
life advocates that has led us to this moment in history in which the 
Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson 
Women's Health Organization. This case, which focuses on the 
constitutionality of a Mississippi law that bars abortion after 15 
weeks, could reset the abortion issue and return it to elected leaders, 
who are more directly accountable to the people than Federal judges.
  Today, I recognize and pay tribute to the role of the IFA in the 
nearly 50-year fight to protect innocent life in the womb. I also join 
with the IFA in praying for the members of our Supreme Court, who are 
now preparing to hear the Dobbs case. May God grant each Justice wisdom 
for the task and mercy for the unborn.

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