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ANATOLY KORNUKOV opened their doors, there have been tremen- ChinaÐas virtual sweatshops.'' Because this dous changes in the lives of many children. is a U.S. territory, $810 million worth of gar- HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON Originally, GENESIS, INC. opened one resi- ments manufactured under these conditions in OF NEW YORK dential group home in Fresno to serve female 1997 entered the U.S. dutyÐ and quota-free adolescents who were predominately Hispanic and allowed to bear the ``Made in USA'' label. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES and under-served. The number of group One Chinese woman describes restrictive Wednesday, February 11, 1998 homes has grown to six with over forty-two cli- labor practices that include being forbidden Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, something ents in placement. GENESIS also established from attending church. Another tells of working very outrageous has just happened in Russia three community schools to assist with their seven days a week and only occasionally get- that should be an affront to all Americans. educational needs and goals. GENESIS has ting a half-day off on Sundays. Human rights As we all remember, on September 1, 1983, been committed to providing job opportunities advocates say ``many guest workers endure the Soviet Union shot down a civilian jetliner, to Valley residents and has prided itself on the unpaid work, forced overtime, withheld wages Korean Airlines flight 007. ability to provide quality employment for both and unsafe workplaces.'' Well Mr. Speaker, the very general who men and women of diverse culture and back- Many foreign workers live in ``squalid shacks gave the order to murder those civilians, in- grounds. Furthermore, GENESIS has provided without running water, sufficient toilets or prop- cluding our friend and colleague Congressman a learning environment for university interns er ventilation'' but ``are too deep in debt back Larry McDonald, has just been appointed by and volunteers who receive valuable on-the- home to risk getting fired'' by speaking out President Yeltsin as the new Chief of Staff of job training and experience under the super- about unfair treatment, poor working condi- the Russian Air Force. vision of highly skilled professionals. tions, or improper wages. Indeed, many of And do you know what? This general, The California State Chamber of Commerce these workers have sold their family's land, Anatoly Kornukov, still doesn't regret that he recognizes one top female owned business on their homes, and have borrowed the money from loan sharks to pay recruiters who have gave the order. He still maintains the Soviet an annual basis. On September 19, 1997 promised them good, high-paying jobs in fiction that KAL 007 was on a spy mission. Genesis incorporated received this award America. The workers must repay these loans That's right, 61¤2 years after Boris Yeltsin under the criteria of success and contributions or risk harm to themselves and their families. stood on that tank, and led the dissolution of to the community. Genesis was chosen As the article attests, the CNMI is hardly a among 30 other nominations from around the the Soviet empire, old Communist thinking not good example of a situation we in Congress state of California. only persists in Russia, it is in fact prevalent would want to emulate in our hoe States. Mr. Speaker, it is with great honor that I pay and is being rewarded by Boris Yeltsin. Rather, it is an example of what can go hor- And 6 years after we put Russia on the for- tribute to Elaine (De La Torre) Bernard and ribly wrong when a U.S. territory government eign aid dole, to the tune of over $50 billion Carol De La Torre of Genesis, Inc. for over 10 develops an economy based heavily on the from American and Western taxpayers, this is years of outstanding community service. It is importation of cheap, alien, indentured work- the thanks we get. the leadership and care exhibited by these two ers, who are granted no stake in society, and It is time for this administration to put their sisters that warrant this recognition. I ask my who are denied adequate labor protections by foot down and demand the removal of this kill- colleagues to join me in wishing Elaine (De La the local government. er, otherwise there will be no more foreign aid Torre) Bernard and Carol De La Torre many Congress can, and should, take action to to Russia. more years of success. correct this situation. I have introduced legisla- f f tion, HR 1450Ðthe ``Insular Fair Wage and CONGRATULATIONS TO ELAINE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER EX- Human Rights Act'' that would place the CNMI (DE LA TORRE) BERNARD AND POSES LABOR ABUSES ON U.S. immigration system under federal law, bringing CAROL DE LA TORRE OF GEN- SOIL the CNMI into conformity with every other U.S. territory. Further, this legislation will incremen- ESIS, INC. tally increase the local minimum wage until it HON. GEORGE MILLER reaches the federal level, and provide that HON. GEORGE P. RADANOVICH OF CALIFORNIA garments only be allowed to bear the ``Made OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in USA'' label if all federal laws were adhered IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wednesday, February 11, 1998 to in the manufacture of the garment. [From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 8, 1998] Wednesday, February 11, 1998 Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise following article appeared in the February 9, YOUR PRICEY CLOTHING IS THEIR LOW-PAY WORK today to congratulate Elaine (De La Torre) 1998 Philadelphia Inquirer and describes the (By Jennifer Lin) Bernard and Carol De La Torre of GENESIS, living and working conditions in the U.S. Com- SAIPAN, NORTHERN MARIANA ISLAND.— The Inc. for being recognized Business Women of monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands rest of America may worry about losing jobs the Year by the Central California Hispanic (CNMI). This article, ``Your Pricey Clothing is to Asia, but this lush island in the far west- Chamber of Commerce, and Top Female Their Low-Pay'' offers additional examples of ern Pacific has created an outpost of Asia Owned Business by the California State the alarming conditions under which many right on American soil. Chamber of Commerce. As sisters and own- workers in this U.S. territory toil. Pacific Rim investors—primarily overseas ers of Genesis, Elaine and Carol have made Every independent reporter who has trav- Chinese and Koreans—have flocked to this countless contributions to the community and eled to the CNMI to investigate the working U.S. territory, building a profitable world- class garment industry. They hire workers are very deserving of recognition. and living conditions of the tens of thousands from China. They import fabric, buttons and For the past 10 years, Elaine Bernard and of imported foreign workers thereÐwhose zippers from China. And in many cases, they Carol De La Torre have dedicated their lives population outnumbers that of the U.S. citi- run their factories just as they would in to Genesis, Inc., a non-profit organization that zensÐhas reached the same alarming conclu- China—as virtual sweatshops—ignoring U.S. provides residential treatment, foster care and sion: U.S. laws designed to protect workers on laws designed to protect workers. supportive family services to children who U.S. soil are not being adequately applied or Even so, the factories can sew ‘‘Made in have been sexually, physically and/or emotion- enforced. Instead, this part of America has be- the U.S.A.’’ onto clothing, skirt U.S. duties and quotas, and pay their workers far less ally abused, neglected or abandoned. The come an outpost for foreign investors, the con- than the U.S. minimum wage. Attempts to Genesis goal is to serve in the Fresno county struction, tourism and garment industries rescind those privileges have been opposed area and community by providing interventions being the major suppliers of foreign workers. by several American lawmakers, some of and building blocks for area youth and fami- In the CNMI, Chinese labor bosses are able to whom have taken trips to Saipan paid for by lies. From the moment Genesis group homes ``run their factories just as they would in the island government.

∑ This ‘‘bullet’’ symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. E126 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks February 11, 1998 The coveted ‘‘Made in the U.S.A.’’ label is The islands’ garment wages are far higher In a letter to officials in Saipan in June, like a seal of approval for clothing-makers, than the 20 to 50 cents per hour paid in the DeLay and House Majority Leader Dick implying that products are untainted by world’s lowest-paying countries. But the ex- Armey (R., Texas) said any legislation that labor abuses the American buying public as- emptions from U.S. standards—and the di- would harm the islands’ economy runs sociates with garments made in Asian sweat- rect pipeline to the U.S. retail market—more counter to the ‘‘principles of the Republican shops. But it has lost much of its meaning in than compensate. The transplanted Asian Party.’’ Adam Turner, a spokesman for Juan Saipan. garment industry here is growing at a rate of N. Babauta, the Marianas’ representative in Such companies as J.C. Penney, Ralph 45 percent a year, according to the U.S. Com- Washington, said only ‘‘a handful’’ of Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Jones New merce Department. Saipan’s factories could be considered sub- York have paid factories here to make their In an effort to promote economic growth, standard. clothing under contract. The suppliers pay the exemptions were negotiated by island ‘‘Hopefully,’’ he said, ‘‘the local govern- less than U.S. minimum wage and ship duty- leaders and approved by Congress in 1976, a ment will do a better job cleaning it up.’’ free to the U.S.—giving them a decided ad- year after islanders voted for U.S. common- In fact, most of the islands’ impoverished vantage over competitors who make gar- wealth status. (The United States seized con- garment workers are grateful to earn $3 an ments in the U.S. trol of the islands from Japan after World hour. But they work on U.S. soil, and it is in- Often it is impossible for American shop- War II.) disputable that conditions in many plants pers to know whether a ‘‘Made In U.S.A.’’ Island leaders argued that the territory in here would not pass muster in America. shirt was sewn by workers in Philadelphia or 1976 was too underdeveloped to afford the Eric Gregoire, who until November was a by low-wage Chinese in Saipan. (Sensing federal minimum wage. Islanders also were human-rights monitor for the Catholic problems, some U.S. companies have asked intent on controlling immigration. With a Church, said some workers are forbidden by their Saipan suppliers to switch to labels population in 1976 of only 14,000, the islands their Asian bosses to come and go as they that say ‘‘Made in the Northern Marianas’’ feared being overrun by Asians trying to mi- please or to live as freely as people in the or ‘‘Made in Saipan.’’) grate to the United States but getting no United States. Last year, garmet factories on the islands farther than Saipan. ‘‘We’re all for economic prosperity, but shipped a projected $810 million in clothing (American Samoa has a small number of you have to look at the other side of the to the U.S. mainland. Had the merchandise Chinese workers, but most of its ‘‘guest ledger,’’ said Allen Staymen, head of the of- been treated like imports from Asia, the U.S. workers’’ come from neighboring Western fice dealing with U.S. territories for the U.S. Treasury could have collected $150 million in Samoa and Tonga.) Department of Interior. ‘‘Slavery also was a Island leaders say they need the exemp- duties. very prosperous economic system. Prosper- Most workers in Saipan’s garment indus- tions to protect their economy. Employers ity in itself doesn’t justify behavior that is try are Chinese, and 21 of the 26 factories are contend that locals do not want the back- not acceptable in the United States.’’ owned by Asian investors. China’s giant, breaking, low-wage sewing or construction In just 15 years, Saipan has built a flour- jobs that go to outsiders. government-controlled textile industry has ishing garment industry from almost noth- Foreign laborers are so hungry for work set up shop here as a way of avoiding strict ing. Its factories employ about as many peo- U.S. quotas. Marianas Garment Manufactur- that they pay thousands of borrowed dollars ple as does Philadelphia’s beleaguered ap- ing Inc., indirectly owned by the Chinese to middlemen to get them jobs. Once here, parel-and-textile trade, which has lost thou- textile industry, hires all 500 of its workers many live like indentured servants. sands of jobs to overseas competitors. in China and flies them here to sew ‘‘Made in Coming from China, the Philippines, Ban- gladesh and Sri Lanka, they sew clothing, ‘‘It’s an absolute insult to American work- Saipan, U.S.A.’’ onto its clothing. ers and American taxpayers that you would There is no other place in the United build factories, clean houses, cook meals, be able to make these products using harshly States or its territories like the Common- wait on tourists, work as hostesses in exploited individuals and foreign workers wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a karaoke bars, pave roads and guard hotels. chain of 14 scenic islands, including the larg- Critics—including President Clinton—charge and then get all the benefits of using the est, Saipan, where more than 5,000 American that the Northern Mariana Islands are flout- ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ label,’’ said Rep. George troops died in a World War II battle. ing basic American values. Clinton has chas- Miller (D., Calif.), who is pushing to take It is the only place on U.S. soil where the tised the island government for importing away most of the islands’ privileges. local government can set its own rules on destitute Asians despite an unemployment Spokesmen for several U.S. companies said minimum wage, and one of two with its own rate of 14 percent among natives on the is- their monitors have found no evidence of immigration policy (along with American lands, where 30 percent of all citizens live substandard conditions in island plants that Samoa). below the poverty line. In a letter last May, sew their garments. ‘‘We do monitor those It is the only place where factories import the President called labor practices on the factories where we do sourcing in the Mari- entire workforces and can pay them $3.05 an islands ‘inconsistent with our country’s val- anas, and to date have had very satisfactory hour, well below the minimum wage of $5.15 ues.’’ results,’’ said Wes Card, chief financial offi- an hour in the United States and the $8 an On Jan. 14, a bipartisan U.S. congressional cer of Jones Apparel Group Inc. of Bristol, hour earned by the typical American gar- commission noted that ‘‘only a few coun- which retails the Jones New York label. ment worker. tries, and no democratic society, have immi- One of biggest island factories is Marianas And it is the only place where foreign gration policies’’ as open to abuse as Garment Manufacturing Inc.—indirectly workers outnumber citizens—about 35,000 Saipan’s. The commission recommended ex- owned by the China National Textiles Import ‘‘guest workers’’ to 27,000 U.S. citizens. tending U.S. labor and immigration laws to & Export Corp. (Chinatex), a behemoth that The Northern Mariana Islands offer just the islands—reforms also proposed by the handles $1.2 billion in Chinese textile exports one example of how intense global competi- Reagan and Bush administrations. to the world, much of it to the United tion combines with an ample supply of des- Pending in Congress are bills that would States. perately poor laborers to perpetuate sweat- gradually raise the islands’ minimum wage Robert O’Connor, a Saipan-based attorney shop conditions. Garment manufacturers to the federal level, impose federal guide- for the company, denied that the factory, hopscotch the globe in search of cheap labor, lines for immigration, and restrict the use of known locally as MGM, is tied to the Chinese cutting deals with local contractors who the ‘‘Made in the U.S.A.’’ label. state-run textile industry. promise ever cheaper and more pliant work- The Marianas government has hosted a ‘‘The name Chinatex has never had any- ers. When wages rise or workers become res- steady stream of congressional visitors, at thing to do with this corporation,’’ O’Connor tive, manufacturers spread some of their an estimated cost of more than $500,000. The said. work to the next cheap site, from Taiwan Roll Call newspaper reported that in the last In fact, all of the individuals listed as di- and South Korea in the 1980s to Mexico and year, seven lawmakers, 75 aides, five spouses rectors and officers of the Saipan factory are Honduras today. and one child—House Majority Whip Tom executives with the Osaka, Japan, branch of- Often, the result is substandard working DeLay (R., Texas) took his daughter)—have fice of Chinatex. conditions and subsistence wages, despite traveled to Saipan, at a cost of about $5,000 Wu Yong, president of the MGM factory, campaigns by labor and human-rights groups a person. Typically, the visitors stay in said in a telephone interview from Osaka that have improved the lives of many gar- beachfront hotels, tour new factories, and that Chinatex opened the factory because ment workers. The persistence of sweatshops visit golf courses and coral reefs. shipments from Saipan are not controlled by preserves the low prices and wide selection ‘‘Everybody cries ‘junket,’ ’’ said Tony U.S. quotas on textile imports. The United Americans enjoy for imported garments. But Rudy, DeLay’s press secretary. ‘‘. . . The States sets comprehensive limits on ship- sweatshops also make American-made gar- fact is that our schedule was filled with ments of clothing coming from other coun- ments less competitive while swelling Amer- meetings from top to bottom.’’ tries in order to protect U.S. textile jobs. ican’s massive trade deficit with the rest of Rudy said DeLay toured factories and The factory uses labels that say ‘‘Made in the world—led by China. spoke with workers, who told him they Saipan, U.S.A.’’ and ‘‘Made in the U.S.A.’’ What makes the Northern Mariana Islands earned more in Saipan than they could in MGM is one of several garment factories unique is that manufacturers here rely not their native countries. charged in recent years with violations of on local workers (who are U.S. citizens) but ‘‘If you bump that up to $5 or whatever an federal labor laws. In 1992, the island govern- on imported workforces of impoverished la- hour,’’ Rudy said, companies will ‘‘just take ment accused the Chinese factory of keeping borers eager to toil for low wages, often the next plane over to the Philippines, where two sets of books and paying sweatshop under sweatshop conditions. they can pay $1 an hour.’’ wages—half of the territory’s minimum February 11, 1998 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E127 wage, which was $2.15 an hour at the time. In But restrictive labor practices persist in soul, and is created in the image and like- September, the company settled the charges many garment factories here, despite limited ness of God. Despite the physical condition by paying $1 million in back wages. reforms and continued pressure by human- of the baby, or the circumstances of concep- ‘‘That happened five years ago,’’ Wu said rights groups. Recently, Chinese women were tion, all are equal in the sight of God. through an interpreter. ‘‘It’s not happening forbidden by their employer from attending Whether deformed, retarded, black or white, anymore.’’ a Christian church. The church’s Korean pas- protectors of life must keep in mind that Far from Saipan’s luxury hotels are what tor had to remind the South Korean factory Christ’s truth is without exception, and all the U.S. Interior Department calls ‘‘labor manager that people in the United States are pre-born babies possess the right to life. camps,’’ home to 20,000 Asian workers. The free to practice religion. There are no exceptions, no compromises, fortunate ones get dormitories with bunk At another South Korean garment com- when it comes to the life of ANY baby. beds and communal bathrooms. Others find pany—formerly S.R. Corp., now Coral Fash- The Catholic Church proclaims that all themselves consigned to squalid shacks with- ion Inc.—workers were told that they could men are ‘‘obliged to honor and bear witness out running water, sufficient toilets or prop- leave their barracks only twice a week for to the truth’’. In fact, it is our duty to de- er ventilation. one hour. Violators ‘‘will be barred from fend the pre-born. St. Thomas Aquinas Young Chinese women spend their days going out the barracks indefinitely,’’ the states, ‘‘As a matter of honor, one man owes hunched over sewing machines under fluores- company wrote in a notice posted on Feb. 6, cent lights. The hours are long and the con- 1997. The factory has since been warned by it to another to manifest the truth.’’ ditions sometimes harsh, but few complain. local officials that it is against the law in Abortion is a direct violation of the truth. They are too deep in debt back home to risk the United States to lock up one’s workers. The entire platform of the pro-abortion getting fired. movement is based on lies. Their many f Some Chinese men said they paid $7,000 statements such as ‘‘It’s a woman’s body’’; apiece for construction jobs, while Chinese FOOD CHECK-OUT DAY ‘‘It’s a blob of tissue’’; ‘‘The mother’s life is seamstresses are charged from $3,000 to $4,000 at stake’’ are attempts to justify the murder each for passage here—often as much as they of a pre-born human being. Abortion can will earn in a year after paying taxes and HON. JON CHRISTENSEN never be justified, for everyone knows in his fees for room and board. The money goes to OF NEBRASKA conscience that it is wrong. Chinese government middlemen, who secure passports and arrange jobs. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES These remarks have been proven wrong by Once here, guest workers are vulnerable to Wednesday, February 11, 1998 people who have LIVED Christ’s truth. The exploitation. Human-rights advocates say most vivid example in my mind happened many guest workers endure unpaid work, Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, Monday, two years ago during my Mother’s crisis forced overtime, withheld wages and unsafe February 9th, was ``Food Check-Out Day.'' pregnancy, when her water broke and she workplaces. ``Food Check-Out Day'' marks the day when went into labor prematurely. The doctors re- A seamstress from southern China said she most Americans have earned enough money fused to give her medical treatment to help is forced to work seven days a week at Mi- to pay for all the food they will consume for save my twenty-week old pre-born brother, cronesian Garment Manufacturing Inc., one the year. American families spend just 10.9 John Paul. They said my Mother would die if of the largest factories, with nearly 300 the pregnancy continued, and declared she workers. Occasionally, she said, she can take percent of their disposable income for food should have the abortion for the ‘‘sake of the a half-day off on Sunday to wash her clothes compared to 15 percent in France, 18 percent mother’’. in Germany and 33 percent in Mexico. or write letters. Several workers said the With the help of many friends, Mom was Besides supplying the country with an af- garment factory, controlled by Hong Kong able to stay at home, never leaving her bed and mainland Chinese investors, would not fordable food supply, the American farmer pro- for ninety-three days. Our family endured grant overtime unless the women met their vides jobs to workers off the farm. For each many trials to keep my brother alive. We daily quotas. Typically, if a worker falls be- dollar spent on food in this country, only 23 were rewarded when he was delivered at thir- hind, she must reach her quota on her own cents goes to the farmer; 77 cents goes to ty-three weeks, for this was long after the time just to qualify for time-and-a-half over- food marketing, processing, retailing, generat- time the doctors said he would be dead. He time pay. lived twenty-three hours, and received Bap- Steve Yim, a Hong Kong-based manage- ing thousands of jobs for American workers. In tism and Confirmation before he went ment consultant for Micronesian Garment my State of Nebraska, 1 out of 4 jobs are tied ‘‘straight to Heaven’’. Many in the world Manufacturing Inc., confirmed that workers to agriculture. took our experience for a failure, but we must meet their quotas before they can earn Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the farmers take comfort in the fact that John Paul is a overtime but denied that women work for no and ranchers from my State. Without their saint, and sees God ‘‘face to Face’’. Thanks pay in order to fill their daily quotas. hard work and dedication to agriculture, the to the truth we learned from those in the ‘‘I’m not aware of it,’’ Yim said, adding pro-life movement, we know Christ’s truth. that no one was forced to work overtime, United States would not have the safest, let It conquered the lies of the pro-death world ‘‘but if they are willing to work seven days, me reiterate the safest, and most affordable in the case of my Mother. She is living proof we don’t prohibit them. We can’t stop food supply in the world. that the ‘‘life of the mother’’ exception is them.’’ f Guests workers are reluctant to speak out, just an excuse to kill a baby. because they know their employers can send CHRISTA CARPENTER’S AWARD Defenders of life, world-wide, have shown them packing with one day’s notice. WINNING ESSAY their commitment to the truth by sacrificing ‘‘It’s not a job market where if they don’t their time and comfort for the abolition of like it, they can leave,’’ said Gregoire, the the Massacre of the Innocents. Actively they human rights worker. ‘‘You’re going to sit HON. MICHAEL BILIRAKIS protest at abortion clinics, and present the there and endure whatever you have to en- OF FLORIDA pro-life message at every opportunity: on dure.’’ Most workers from China are required IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES television, in newspapers, on radio, and in to sign contracts with the Chinese govern- schools. ment, vowing to obey the laws of the United Wednesday, February 11, 1998 More often than not, we never see the States, Northern Mariana Islands—and Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ‘‘fruits’’ of our endeavors. Some say our ef- China. share the following essay with our colleagues. forts in the pro-life movement will never be A two-year contract for one Chinese car- It was written by one of my constituents, Ms. able to stop the mass murder of children penter forbids him from engaging in ‘‘any po- throughout the world. Yet, whether rep- litical or religious activity.’’ He cannot take Christa Carpenter, and won first place in the resentatives of His truth are the majority or drugs, watch ‘‘sex movies,’’ fight, get drunk March for Life national essay contest com- the minority; whether abortion increases or or ‘‘fall in love or get married.’’ Some gar- memorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of le- stops entirely; whether we have no political ment-industry executives say conditions are galized abortion in the United States. I believe support or have the help of the entire gov- improving as manufacturers become more she presents a compelling argument in sup- ernment; His TRUTH will perpetually reign attuned to American labor practices. port of the sanctity of all human life. supreme. When it comes to the life of a baby, Eloy Inos, an executive with Tan Holdings all know that a baby is a child created in the Corp., the largest garment-maker on Saipan, WE MARCH ON FOR LIFE AND TRUTH image and likeness of God, and abortion is said the garment factories help create ancil- God’s truth is eternal, absolute, universal, the murder of that precious infant. lary work in shipping, insurance and other and impartial. It is our most powerful weap- support services. He said some problems had on in the battle to end abortion. During the This battle may ensue for our lifetime or been caused by Asian manufacturers’ unfa- past twenty-five years of the murdering of for the next generation to come, but His miliarity with U.S. labor standards. our brothers and sisters, His truth has been truth will ultimately ‘‘set us free’’ from the ‘‘They’ve since learned and have changed a marching on in the pro-life movement. evil of abortion. Advocates of life, take lot, although at times the changes were Our Faith tells us that a pre-born baby, heart: for as His truth is marching on, our painful,’’ Inos said. from the moment of fertilization, possesses a God is marching with us.