[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H1090-H1091]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              RECOGNIZING TURNER SYNDROME AWARENESS MONTH

  (Mr. FEENSTRA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FEENSTRA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Turner Syndrome 
Awareness Month and my constituent, Nicole Cleveland, for bringing 
attention to this little-known disease.
  At birth, Nicole was diagnosed with TS and was told she may never 
walk.

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She did. Nicole was told that she would never go to college. She did. 
She graduated from Morningside University with a degree in political 
science and journalism.
  But Nicole did not stop there. She went on to be the youngest woman 
ever elected to the Sergeant Bluff City Council and will be releasing 
her first book this spring called ``The Butterfly Chronicles.''
  Now, she commits her time and talent to advocating for the more than 
70,000 American women and girls who have TS.
  In conjunction with her advocacy, I will soon be introducing a bill, 
the Protecting Girls with Turner Syndrome Act, to criminalize the 
abortion of any baby diagnosed with TS because my faith teaches me that 
every person is created for a purpose, and Nicole was certainly created 
as a special one.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank Nicole for bringing awareness of TS and sharing 
her message of optimism and hope with so many people.

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