Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

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Ms. SCHOLTEN. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of parental and maternal rights and in opposition to H.R. 26.

I am the first mother in history to represent west Michigan in Congress. This matter is deeply personal to me. I recently shared publicly about my own experience navigating a complex miscarriage and the loss of my daughter. As a pro-choice Christian who chose life, this issue is so personal to me. My faith informs my actions, but it doesn't dictate the policy of an entire nation.

Further, when I read the Scripture, I am guided by passages like Jeremiah 1:5, which states: I knew you before I formed you, and I placed you in your mother's womb. It doesn't say the government's womb or the Speaker's womb, it says the mother's womb.

I believe life is precious, but I reject the idea that if I embrace the sanctity of life, I also must be forced to invite the Federal Government in to regulate it. We must protect families from unnecessary government intrusion into the most sacred and personal decisions of our lives and our children's lives.

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