Blake Moore: “I appreciate Mr. Wilson's message during this very important week. I yield to the gentleman from the First District of…”

“I appreciate Mr. Wilson's message during this very important week. I yield to the gentleman from the First District of California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate Mr. Moore's leading us here tonight. Indeed, a lot of important issues, but we know January is typically a month of action for people who believe in being pro-life or those who are pro-abortion. As we know, January of 1973 is when the Roe v. Wade decision was arbitrarily legislated by the Supreme Court, I believe by a vote of 7- 2, to somehow make abortion a law instead of leaving that up to State legislators. Well, that was overturned after many, many years. It is now in the hands of legislators to actually do the legislating and search their souls on whether they think an unborn baby is actually a life or something else. Many people have stood up around this country to have their voices heard on the wrongness of that decision, and you find that in rallies and marches like happened all over the country and happened right here in D.C. in January. People have certainly made their voices heard, and I think it was successful in a Court that actually decided to interpret the Constitution. Science supports the idea that life begins at conception. We know as early as 5 weeks in the womb, babies have a heartbeat. Some States, some jurisdictions are deciding that would be the point at least to start and acknowledge it is a life.…”