[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 26, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S1655]
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                                ABORTION

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, let me commend the distinguished Senator 
from California for her remarks. I find myself in complete agreement 
with what she has just said. I hope that this year, as opposed to last 
year, we can find a solution, that we can resolve the differences that 
may not be insurmountable in coming to grips with both of the issues--
family planning and late-term abortion.
  If we can find the language that says that, with respect to all 
procedures, postviability abortions ought to be outlawed, except in 
those rare, rare circumstances involving the life and emergency health 
situations so that we would protect the woman from irreparable harm or 
enable her to have another child at a later date, is something that I 
hope we can all support and come together to resolve. So, again, I 
thank her for her comments, and I would like to work very much with the 
Senator from Indiana, who has spent a lot of time on this issue to 
resolve this matter in a successful way sometime this session.

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