[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3532]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           OBAMACARE'S UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONTRACEPTIVE MANDATE

  (Mr. FLEISCHMANN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEISCHMANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to echo the remarks of Speaker 
Paul Ryan. We must protect the sanctity of the lives of the unborn.
  The Little Sisters of the Poor v. Burwell is a landmark case that 
rightfully challenges ObamaCare's unconstitutional contraceptive 
mandate. I wholeheartedly agree with the Little Sisters of the Poor and 
believe that life begins at conception.
  Mother Teresa once said: ``I feel that the greatest destroyer of 
peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child--a 
direct killing of the innocent child--murder by the mother herself. And 
if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell 
other people not to kill one another?''
  The unborn are the most innocent and vulnerable members of our 
society. The Constitution already protects life, and I have sworn to 
uphold that Constitution. I will continue to serve all east Tennesseans 
by consistently voting for life.

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