On the recordJanuary 15, 2020
I will address a few topics tonight, but before I start on these other topics, I, as well, will address the March for Life. As has been mentioned, we are dealing with the 47th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Hopefully, over 200,000 people will be here in Washington next week, and I feel bad it is a week where we are doing our work back in the district so I won't be able to be here for it. It is still kind of amazing that, in 1973, I think it was seven out of nine judges, which is kind of a bad testimony to the law schools of this Nation, felt that when our forefathers put together the Constitution, they felt that it, of necessity, made abortion legal in this country. I am sure they were not talking about it at all at the time, and throughout much of our history, abortion has been legal in the vast majority of States. At the time that Roe v. Wade came down, I believe abortion was illegal in 48 of the 50 States. If not, it was almost 48 States, and it was just an outlandish decision. Since the decision has come down, we have had over 45 million lives cut short because of abortion in this country. When you think about 45 million, think how large that is. If they were alive today, it would be something on the order of about one-seventh of the current population of this country. But our people have voluntarily snuffed out that many lives. I remember when ultrasounds came out and became common.…
