[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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                 SHOOTING AT PENSACOLA ABORTION CLINIC

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, July 29, 1994

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, in March of 1993, many of us stood in this 
well and decried the atmosphere of hate and lawlessness that surrounded 
our country's abortion clinics.
  I said then ``for several months there has been an increasing level 
of violence by the antichoice movement: Emotional and physical 
harassment of doctors, patients, and health care workers; bombings; 
chemical sprayings, beatings; and now cold-blooded murder.''
  What concerned me most at the time were the weak disavowals of 
violence by the antichoice people. At the time antichoice leaders had 
established a defense fund for the killer of this doctor--a killer now 
serving a life sentence.
  Mr. Speaker, the antichoice people have created this climate of 
violence. And today this violence has claimed the lives of two more 
people and wounded a third.
  Mr. Speaker, these appalling acts of violence are purposeful. They 
have the calculated intent of destroying and terrorizing.
  For the sake of health professionals and women across the country, I 
urge our Nation's law enforcement authorities to respond appropriately 
to the antiabortion movement's violent tactics. We must insist that the 
law stop what their conscience permits.

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