[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 31 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 31

To express the sense of the Senate that the Attorney General should act 
        immediately to protect reproductive health care clinics.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              January 6 (legislative day, January 5), 1995

  Mrs. Boxer (for herself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Kerry, Mr. 
Kennedy, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Simon, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Baucus, 
Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Ms. Moseley-Braun, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Jeffords, 
Mr. Pell, Mr. Chafee, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Inouye, and Mr. Bradley) submitted 
 the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
To express the sense of the Senate that the Attorney General should act 
        immediately to protect reproductive health care clinics.

Whereas there are approximately 900 clinics in the United States providing 
        reproductive health services;
Whereas violence directed at persons seeking to provide reproductive health 
        services continues to increase in the United States, as demonstrated by 
        the recent shootings at two reproductive health clinics in Massachusetts 
        and another health care clinic in Virginia;
Whereas organizations monitoring clinic violence have recorded over 130 
        incidents of violence or harassment directed at reproductive health care 
        clinics and their personnel in 1994 such as death threats, stalking, 
        chemical attacks, bombings and arson;
Whereas there has been one attempted murder in Florida and four individuals 
        killed at reproductive health care clinics in Florida and Massachusetts 
        in 1994;
Whereas the Congress passed and the President signed the Freedom of Access to 
        Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, a law establishing Federal criminal 
        penalties and civil remedies for certain violent, threatening, 
        obstructive and destructive conduct that is intended to injure, 
        intimidate or interfere with persons seeking to obtain or provide 
        reproductive health services;
Whereas violence is not a mode of free speech and should not be condoned as a 
        method of expressing an opinion;
Whereas persons exercising their constitutional rights and acting completely 
        within the law are entitled to full protection from the Federal 
        Government;
Whereas the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 imposes a mandate 
        on the Federal Government to protect individuals seeking to obtain or 
        provide reproductive health services; and
Whereas the Attorney General has at her disposal law enforcement personnel 
        including 10,000 FBI agents and over 2000 members of the United States 
        Marshals Service: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the United States 
Attorney General should fully enforce the law and take any further 
necessary measures to protect persons seeking to provide or obtain, or 
assist in providing or obtaining, reproductive health services from 
violent attack.
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