mr. speaker. i would take you back to 1973 and roe v. wade and doe v. bolten. those two supreme court cases, working in conjunction with each other, essentially translated into abortion on demand. and we saw abortions go from who knows what the number was, no, we do know. about 35,000 abortions a year in america, a number of that i'd say, i thought was horrible then, to something like 1.6 million abortions in america. now rash eted down, the weight -- ratcheted down, the weight of the conscience of our society, to some number of a million or maybe a little bit less than a million. mr. speaker, we don't get to count that difference between 1.6 million, roughly the peak, and a little under a million, as 600,000 babies saved every year. instead it goes on our conscience the other way. and that's the cumulative total of 60 million babies who have been sacrificed at the altar of this subject called pro-choice, judicial activism. i remind you, mr. speaker, that human life is protected in our united states constitution. it's protected under the 14th amendment. and we