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RECOGNIZING PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Good) for 5 minutes.
Mr. GOOD of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to recognize the incredible lifesaving care provided by pregnancy resource centers across the country.
Thanks to the 2,700 pregnancy resource centers in the United States, mothers looking for help, hope, and healing have a safe place they can turn to.
In my own district, Virginia's Fifth Congressional District, we have 10 outstanding centers where lives are saved and mothers are given new hope.
To recognize the exceptional work they do, I have introduced a resolution designating the week of November 8 as National Pregnancy Center Week, highlighting the vital role that pregnancy resource centers play in helping mothers and families.
As a result of their work, young lives will be given the opportunity to live, grow up, and work in our great Nation.
Despite there being over three times as many pregnancy resource centers as abortion centers in the United States, sadly, most Americans are more familiar with the anti-life groups like Planned Parenthood because my colleagues on the other side of the aisle stumble over each other to throw taxpayer money in their direction.
Without pregnancy resource centers, millions more babies would be murdered by the scourge of radical anti-life groups under the guise of family planning.
To all those who selflessly serve in pregnancy resource centers, I thank you for your lifesaving work.
Mr. Speaker, no more fundamental right than the right to life exists in our country and in our world today, and there is no more fundamental responsibility of government than the responsibility to defend the most vulnerable among us, and that includes innocent, precious life in the womb.
Everyone knows abortion is wrong. The clear science shows us that it is the taking of innocent life in the womb. The only question is what priority we will give that unborn, precious life in the womb.
Thankfully, our country has an admirable history of correcting civil and social injustice. The glaring exception is the ultimate injustice of abortion.
I pray that we will soon correct this injustice, and I believe that history will rightly condemn those who stood on the wrong side on this issue. I pray that we will correct the injustice of abortion, which has tragically taken the lives of some 70 million unborn children.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 82
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