Alan Nunnelee: “I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for his leadership in speaking out on this very important issue. Our…”

“I want to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for his leadership in speaking out on this very important issue. Our Declaration of Independence, our Nation's birth certificate, states that all are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among those are the right to life; but now, for 40 years, over 55 million Americans have been denied that basic right to life guaranteed by our Declaration of Independence. The Supreme Court got it wrong with Roe, just as they got it wrong with Dred Scott. Now, I accept the fact that under our system of law Roe is the law of the land today, but I, along with many millions of people around America, pray that one day that decision will be overturned. While in this body we've had much spirited debate over the right to life, there's one area where we have found bipartisan agreement, and that is that taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a practice that so many of us find abhorrent. We must protect taxpayers from funding abortion. That's why, earlier today, I introduced legislation that would do just that. Under ObamaCare, the Federal Government is required to sponsor at least two multistate insurance plans. {time} 1550 The bill that was introduced earlier today would simply prevent those plans from paying for abortions, thus making sure that taxpayers around the Nation are not required to subsidize the taking of life.…”