[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 174-175]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   RECOGNIZING THE 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROE V. WADE AND THE CATHOLIC 
                DIOCESE OF BILOXI IN THE MARCH FOR LIFE

  (Mr. PALAZZO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)

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  Mr. PALAZZO. Madam Speaker, today we pause to mark the 39th 
anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v. Wade. No other 
Supreme Court case has so directly affected the lives of millions of 
American people, both those who have been touched by abortion and the 
millions of unborn children whose lives have been taken since 1973.
  I and many of my colleagues will continue to speak out on behalf of 
these unborn children by supporting legislation such as the Life at 
Conception Act. I am thankful we have hundreds of thousands of friends 
in the fight that have gathered in the streets of Washington this week 
in memory of so many lives lost. I am especially grateful to the 150 
youths with the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi who have made the trip all 
the way from my district in south Mississippi.
  Today I ask my colleagues to join with me and our friends with the 
March of Life in marking this sad day and resolving to put an end to 
this murderous practice of taking unborn life. I pray, as Christ did in 
Luke 23:34, ``Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.''

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