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Mike Pompeo: Today, I stand here on the 40th anniversary of one of the worst decisions of our United States Supreme Court. It was…

On the recordJanuary 22, 2013
Today, I stand here on the 40th anniversary of one of the worst decisions of our United States Supreme Court. It was deeply flawed. Too many Justices spoke of emanations of penumbras but missed the core principle contained in the Constitution: this notion that every human being is endowed with this special dignity that we call life. The cost of that decision has been enormous: 55 million souls were not brought into this world. We can feel it in families torn asunder and in lives that didn't get to become the next great leaders in our Nation. These lives were lost to each of us. They're lost to the families. They're lost to our community. They're lost to their Maker. But I want to talk today about hope. Ever since this decision in 1973, there's been a march. And I was in the Army. When you march, you march to victory. We've had this special march. We'll have this march again this week. We'll have it in Kansas. Kansas has a very special relationship to this march. In 1991, in Wichita, Kansas, the city which I represent, we held the Summer of Mercy, where people came together in peace to talk about these lives that should have been protected but had not been. And this week, the airlines permitting, I'll be back to watch young people from all across south central Kansas board buses bound for Washington, D.C.…
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Mike Pompeo
Republican · Kansas
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Jan 22, 2013

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