Bob Onder: “Mr. Speaker, for decades under Chairman Smith's leadership, the House Pro-Life Caucus has worked as a strong coalition…”

“Mr. Speaker, for decades under Chairman Smith's leadership, the House Pro-Life Caucus has worked as a strong coalition for life, and I am grateful to serve along with the gentleman as a caucus co-chairman. Today, we remember the 53rd anniversary of the erroneous and lawless Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade. When the Court held that the 14th Amendment's reference to liberty protected a right to abortion, with the stroke of a pen, the Supreme Court empowered the abortion industry to kill millions of unborn children. A research paper published in the 'American Journal of Public Health' two decades after Roe found that the Supreme Court's decision caused a 4.5 percent decline in births in States where abortion was not already legal. Vast numbers of babies were never born. Thankfully, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in one of the biggest victories for life in American history. Dobbs v. Jackson rightfully upheld that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, returning the authority to regulate abortion to the American people and to their elected Representatives. The Constitution makes no explicit reference to obtain an abortion. The Founding Fathers never intended the Constitution to give a license to kill.”