[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, today we recognize the Roe v. Wade 
decision and its aftermath. In 1982, my wife and I had the opportunity 
to work to start what became the seventh crisis pregnancy center in the 
country. Now they are known as pregnancy care centers. The work that we 
did in Rockford, Illinois, spilled into Freeport, Illinois, and DeKalb, 
Illinois. We set up these centers so we could be there to minister to 
the women who had very difficult decisions to make.
  The pregnancy care centers throughout the country offer all kinds of 
service, from ultrasound to social services to working with the women 
and with the fathers involved in a very difficult situation.
  We commemorate that today we honor those who worked so hard for these 
crisis pregnancy centers. My wife and I are proud to have been two 
people who helped start the one in Rockford, Illinois.

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