On the recordNovember 30, 2021
I rise today ahead of one of the most important moments in our decades-long battle to protect life. When our Founding Fathers laid out the Declaration of Independence, they talked about life, they talked about liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They called them certain unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. The reality is you can't have liberty and the pursuit of happiness without first having that unalienable right given by God, and that is the right to life. Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the Mississippi late-term abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. This puts our Nation at the crossroads of history. Our Nation has a moment to finally modernize our laws. We have got the aptitude to catch up with the great advancements seen in science, in technology, and medicine that indisputably show the humanity of unborn children. We have the opportunity to end an extreme judicially imposed abortion regime that is aligned with nations such as China and North Korea. The United States is just one of seven nations that allows late-term abortions. We have the opportunity to write a new chapter of American history where the people's elected representatives get to decide abortion policy in this country. The Supreme Court of the United States has the chance to right a historic injustice and finally overturn Roe v. Wade. Our Court's nine Justices have the opportunity to reconsider a wrongly decided case.…
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