[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 13 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE 22D ANNIVERSARY OF ROE VERSUS WADE

  (Mr. WATT of North Carolina asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, on this anniversary of the 
landmark Roe versus Wade decision I want to express my disgust at the 
recent outbreaks of violence at our Nation's family planning clinics. 
Roe versus Wade affirmed that the women in this country have a right to 
reproductive choice. This right to choose, like every other 
constitutional rights, must be vigilantly guarded regardless of one's 
individual beliefs.
  The outbreaks of violence we have seen recently at family planning 
facilities are chilling reminders of the violence we saw surrounding 
polling places in the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's, as African-Americans 
attempted to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
  We must not allow any constitutional right to be abridged through 
campaigns of violent intimidation.

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