On the recordJuly 15, 2022
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for leading and for all of her courageous leadership on this important issue. Madam Speaker, I have to say, we have been stunned here in the last hour of this debate by a lot of what we have heard, not the least of which is when one of our Democrat colleagues actually exclaimed on this floor in the last hour: ``Thank God abortion is still legal.'' I just sat here and said wow. Thank God? Thank God for what? That innocent, unborn children can still be killed in many States? Thank God? The other side in this debate has not only abandoned reverence, all reverence, all morality, all reason, but they defied medical technology. They have also completely abandoned the first self-evident truth boldly proclaimed in our Nation's birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal--not born equal--created equal by God, and it is He who gives our inalienable rights, beginning, obviously, with the right to life. I mean, seriously, please don't come on this floor and thank our creator for your zeal to terminate the innocent lives that He has created. God have mercy on us. Madam Speaker, today, the Democrats have brought two bills to this floor. The first is a complete overhaul of all pro-life protections, which will allow for taxpayer-funded abortion on demand through all three trimesters of pregnancy.…





