[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1222]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MAKE A CHOICE FOR LIFE

  (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, 44 years ago, because of Roe v. Wade, over 
58 million children were taken from the chance to utter the words of 
the psalmist in Psalm 139 when he said:

       For you formed my inward parts; you wove me in my mother's 
     womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and 
     wonderfully made; wonderful are your works, and my soul knows 
     it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was 
     made in secret, and skillfully, wrought in the depths of the 
     Earth; your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in your 
     book were all written the days that were ordained for me, 
     when as yet there was not one of them.

  Mr. Speaker, those lives were lives of children that were created, 
uniquely formed with a purpose that God only intended. Our Nation did 
wrong. We can turn from that. We can ask Him to heal our land. And even 
as the psalmist said:

       Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the 
     womb is a reward.

  We can again affirm that and say that they should be given a choice--
that little girl, that little boy--making a choice for life, and who 
knows what that would do to impact our world for the good.

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