[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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                          TRAGEDY IN PENSACOLA

  (Mrs. LOWEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, for those of us who believe strongly in a 
woman's right to choose, today is our worst nightmare. We have been 
winning the battles in the courts, but we are at risk of losing the war 
at the clinics.
  This shooting is a direct assault on the rights of all American 
women. The gunfire in Pensacola is just the latest in a series of 
attacks against patients, clinics, and doctors. Make no mistake: anti-
choice extremists are waging a nationwide war on the right to choose.
  In Pensacola they use a gun. Here in Washington they hope to use 
health care reform. The goals are the same: to take women backward, to 
marginalize women's health care, to restrict access to reproductive 
services.
  We cannot allow them to succeed.
  Health care reform is an historic opportunity to affirm the right to 
choose by guaranteeing basic health care for all American women. This 
is an opportunity we cannot afford to lose.

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