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On the recordApril 6, 2022
The last thing I am going to address tonight is probably the most important issue of all, because everything we talk about right now, everything we have addressed already, is about life. There was a tradition here that on Wednesdays people would wear red, and they would wear red to remind people of the girls that had been kidnapped by Boko Haram. We wanted those girls back, so we would wear red and would walk around here and say: We have got red on today because we want those girls back; Boko Haram has got to return those girls. So I started wearing red on Wednesdays. Friends on the other side would say to me: So you are in concert with us; you believe the same things we do? I would say: I absolutely do. I absolutely do. They said: You want those girls back? I said: Yes, I do. But I don't want just the girls that Boko Haram took; I want the girls back that have been aborted. I want those girls back whose lives were ended. I want you to really face the truth of what is going on in America today. The wordsmithing that takes place here in the people's House, on the floor, people talk about abortion as healthcare, taking the life of a little boy or a little girl is healthcare. Every night, we see pictures of what Russia is doing to Ukraine. Yet, we have a deaf ear to the cries of the unborn, and we don't look at all to those who are being lost every day. Because if you don't see them, I guess they don't count.…
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Apr 6, 2022

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