[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 28 (Monday, February 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    ABORTIONS--SAFE, RARE, AND LEGAL

  (Mr. SKAGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, is the issue Henry Foster's nomination to be 
Surgeon General? No, that is not the real issue. What is really going 
on? This nomination has become the battle ground over abortion rights.
  President Clinton could not have put it better. Abortion should be 
safe, legal, and rare. Yet the Foster nomination has been seized upon 
by those who would criminalize choice. They see it as a chance to 
further their extreme agenda.
  Now we learn that last fall the Senate Republican Campaign Committee 
gave tens of thousands of dollars to the Right to Life Committee. The 
purpose: to increase the number of votes to criminalize choice.

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  Let us get it straight--safe, rare, and legal.

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