[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 255-256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROE V. WADE

  (Mr. MESSER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MESSER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to reflect on 40 years since 
the ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade.
  Our President, in his inaugural address yesterday, recognized the 
fact that this Nation has long understood that we are all endowed by 
our Creator with certain unalienable rights. Chief among them is the 
right to life and the recognition that it's rooted in, that every life 
is precious and deserving of dignity.
  Today, I took the first of what will be many steps in my 
congressional service to protect life by cosponsoring H.R. 217, the 
Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, to ensure that family 
planning grants are used for their intended purposes and not by 
organizations like Planned Parenthood to provide abortions.
  Mr. Speaker, as a Nation, we must do better. Our children deserve 
better. My hope is that with hard work, persuasion, and prayer we will 
once again become a Nation that recognizes the dignity of every human 
being and recognizes again our God-given unalienable right to life.

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