[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10530]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, oftentimes over the last 2 years in this 
Congress we have not been bipartisan and we certainly have not looked 
out for the best interests of our children. Tomorrow, with the partial-
birth abortion ban vote, we have an opportunity to be both bipartisan 
and to look out for our Nation's children.
  This partial-birth abortion procedure is horrific. It is gruesome. It 
is totally unacceptable. I would hope Democrats and Republicans, men 
and women, prochoice and prolife Members would come together and join 
together tomorrow to have an important debate and an important vote in 
outlawing a procedure that hopefully most prolife and prochoice Members 
agree should be permanently banned in the United States of America.

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