[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 208 (Thursday, December 2, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6864-H6865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ABORTION NOT A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT

  (Mr. BURCHETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, our U.S. Supreme Court Justices 
held oral arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson case, which addressed the 
constitutionality of Mississippi's law banning abortions after 15 
weeks.
  It is time to get rid of the rules that prevent our legislators from 
enacting the will of the people and passing laws to protect the unborn, 
Mr. Speaker.
  Chief Justice John Roberts once argued that the right to abortion has 
``no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution.'' 
I pray he and the eight other Justices uphold that view in Dobbs v. 
Jackson. They know the ability to murder unborn children is not one of 
our fundamental rights.
  The Biden administration suspended basic healthcare regulations so 
doctors

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could pass out abortion pills like candy, Mr. Speaker. It is time for 
our third branch of government to step up now, show some common sense, 
and make the right decision to protect millions of our unborn babies.
  In closing, Mr. Speaker, I always remember a story that happened 
shortly before my momma left this Earth. She was in hospice, and she 
started talking to folks that had passed a long time before her: my 
daddy, her daddy, her brother who died in the Second World War. She was 
looking off at one point, and I said: ``What are you looking at, 
Momma?'' And she said: ``Baby, I am looking at all of those sweet 
little babies over there.''

  I can't help but think some of those sweet little babies my sweet 
momma was looking at were some of the unborn that were murdered in 
abortion.

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