[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 102 (Friday, July 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 29, 1994]
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                  EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL TO HEALTH CARE

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, this is an incredible country where 
Americans every day are willing to put their lives on the line for 
other Americans and for their full rights under the Constitution. 
Unfortunately, today two of those Americans lost their lives in 
Florida. Two Americans who were escorting women into family planning 
clinics were shot and killed today. That says to me as we go into this 
health care debate, we must all stand for the full constitutional 
rights of women to access to health care. Anything we do that sends any 
kind of message that women's rights are at all marginal only encourages 
those people who think they have the right to take the law into their 
own hands and shoot those who are out there trying to guarantee this 
constitutional right for women.
  I think universal includes women. It must include women in health 
care. We must do it for these two Americans who lost their lives today. 
Anything else would only perpetuate this kind of a terrorizing scene 
that we have seen much too much of in America.

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