[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 171]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT

  (Mr. WENSTRUP asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WENSTRUP. Mr. Speaker, 54 million, that is the number of lives 
that have been cut short in our Nation by abortion over the 43 years 
since the Supreme Court's infamous Roe v. Wade decision. That is 54 
million children who were never given the chance to experience the 
world around them, and 54 million human beings who were denied the 
natural and inalienable right to life that our Founding Fathers 
enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.
  As a father, I have watched my son grow from his first sonogram to a 
very active 2-year-old. He looks to me for protection, for guidance, 
for comfort. So too do society's most innocent and vulnerable count on 
us to defend them.
  During his visit to the U.S. in 1987, now-Saint Pope John Paul II 
remarked: ``The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat 
every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless 
ones.''
  I believe we must reach out to mothers in distress, as well as the 
child that they are bearing. There are few more vulnerable and 
defenseless than the unborn.
  On the 22nd of this month, hundreds of thousands of Americans will 
arrive here in our Nation's Capital for the annual March for Life. I 
look forward to joining them as we work toward that day when our great 
Nation will recognize the right to life for all Americans, especially 
our unborn children.

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