Statement for the Record by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
On the March for Life
Friday, January 24, 2020
Friday marks the 47th annual March for Life.
This year’s theme is, “Life Empowers: Pro-Life is Pro-Woman.”
This theme recognizes that 2020 is the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
The earliest feminists regarded abortion as a terrible consequence of our society’s failure to embrace women’s intrinsic value.
These women instinctively embraced the sanctity of innocent human life, even though they could not have foreseen the advances in technology that have made it possible for newborn babies to survive at earlier and earlier stages of fetal development.
One example of such miracle babies is Micah Pickering of Iowa, born prematurely at 22 weeks gestation, who is now seven years old.
We today celebrate the lives of these miracle babies, remember all the others who were lost to abortion and focus on how women are empowered by upholding the dignity of life.
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