[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 207 (Wednesday, December 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6839]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             RIGHT TO LIFE

  (Mr. WESTERMAN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WESTERMAN. Madam Speaker, the first unalienable right named in 
the Declaration of Independence is the right to life. The Preamble of 
the Constitution further built the framework for this most fundamental 
liberty.
  ``We, the people . . . in order to form a more perfect Union, 
establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common 
defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of 
liberty to ourselves and our posterity''--none of which can truly be 
accomplished when the law allows the murder of unborn children.
  The Supreme Court got this wrong in 1973 and now has the chance to 
correct its mistakes and uphold the constitutional right to life. It is 
absurd to argue, as the plaintiff in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health 
Organization does, that our founding document can be used to prevent 
duly-elected State legislators from protecting life.
  The Supreme Court must right this wrong. Our Nation should never put 
an unwritten right to privacy before the enumerated right to life.

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