Hensarling Votes to Protect Our Most Vulnerable: Unborn Children

Statement

Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement today after the House of Representatives passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 7):

"Today -- on the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision -- thousands of citizens took a stand for the rights of the unborn and celebrate the sanctity of life by participating in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. and at events across the country. I was proud to stand with them and with my fellow Representatives and vote to prevent taxpayer funding for abortion.

"The bill we passed today codifies into law the Hyde Amendment, which doesn't outlaw abortions but simply says that federal taxpayers will not be compelled to subsidize them -- a policy that has been the law of the land for almost forty years.

"As humans and as a people, we have no greater responsibility than to care for the vulnerable--to be a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves and a defender of those who cannot fight for themselves. Often we hear that we ought to do something for the least of these; truly unborn life is the least of these.

"One of our highest ideals as Americans is that every human life is endowed with dignity and has value. As a matter of morality, history, science, reason, and most of all faith, I can come to no other conclusion but that every human life begins at conception and every life is worthy of protection."

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