[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 255 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 255

To express the sense of the Senate condemning the tactic of soliciting 
    support for the use of violence against abortion providers and 
                               activists.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              August 25 (legislative day August 18), 1994

 Mr. Reid submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
To express the sense of the Senate condemning the tactic of soliciting 
    support for the use of violence against abortion providers and 
                               activists.

Whereas the public debate concerning abortion elicits strong emotions on all 
        sides of the issue;
Whereas maintaining an ongoing, rational debate is the best way to ensure that 
        the emotional issue of abortion is resolved in a manner that is 
        satisfactory to all parties genuinely interested in resolving this 
        issue;
Whereas the best way to ensure continued debate over abortion is to encourage 
        all participants in the debate to engage in peaceful dialogue and 
        compromise;
Whereas, without an ongoing dialogue about abortion, potential participants in 
        the debate will become isolated and marginalized;
Whereas extremist individuals and groups concerned with abortion have refused to 
        engage in public dialogue and substantive debate about the issue, 
        choosing instead to target and terrorize the individuals and groups that 
        disagree with their position;
Whereas these extremist individuals and groups have actively engaged in tactics 
        that sow the seeds of hatred, including soliciting written support in 
        the form of letters and petitions to carry out murderous acts of 
        violence;
Whereas such tactics ignite and fuel the underlying anger often associated with 
        the public debate concerning abortion;
Whereas such tactics are shameful, abhorrent and divisive; and
Whereas the continued use of such tactics only serves to spawn further acts of 
        senseless violence against innocent human beings and in no way advances 
        the cause of the individuals and groups interested in resolving the 
        abortion issue: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the tactics of 
extremist individuals and groups which are designed to sow the seeds of 
hatred, including soliciting, promoting, encouraging, or carrying out 
murderous acts of violence against abortion providers and activists, is 
condemned.
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