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| https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=f9f15cf5-be03-4a4d-a0bb-bc4c4e769f91 | Senator Lee Delivers Remarks on National Pregnancy Center Week | 2015-11-10 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Republican | House | UT | Mike Lee | L000577 | www.lee.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTONToday, Senator Mike Lee delivered remarks on the Senate floor regarding National Pregnancy Center Week. Senator Lee requested unanimous consent from the Senate to approve Senate Resolution 37, which would designate the second week in November as National Pregnancy Center Week. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) objected to the request. Full text of Senator Lees remarks as prepared for delivery is available below, and video can be viewed here. Madam President, I rise today to support, and to request the Senates approval of, Senate Resolution 37 a resolution that would designate this week in November National Pregnancy Center Week, in honor of the life-saving and life-affirming work of Americas community-supported pregnancy centers. I am asking for my colleagues unanimous consent because there is absolutely nothing contentious about this resolution or the pregnancy-resource centers it commemorates. There are approximatelytwenty-five hundredpregnancy-resource centers in America. And every single day, they serve an average ofsixty-five thousandwomen and men faced with challenging pregnancy decisions, providing them a wide array of resources. This includes, at many centers, health-care services like pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and testing for STDs and STIs. It includes emotional and educational support like options counseling and parenting classes. And it includes material and logistical assistance to help new moms and dads deal with all the little things that easily add up to big obstacles in the first weeks and months of parenthood. Americas pregnancy-resource centers arent out to make a profit or push an agenda. Theyre just there to help and to do so in a way that is compassionate, considerate of individual privacy, and respectful of the equal dignity of all human life. Madam President, any way you look at it, Americas pregnancy-resource centers deserve to be recognized with a National Pregnancy Center Week. But the real measure of their significance isnt in the words of a floor speech or the outcome of a vote its in the millions of lives they help save from abortion every year. The millions of teachers, soldiers, and nurses, neighbors, friends, and spouses, whose lives and contributions to our communities we might never have known had it not been for the unassuming heroes down at the local pregnancy center, giving their time to keep the lights on, answer the phones, and to help young women and men find the hope and courage to choose life. Read the Resolution here: Resolution Designating the week beginning November 8, 2015, as National Pregnancy Center Week | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |