[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 26 (Friday, February 12, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E233-E234]
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                       HONORING SUSAN B. ANTHONY

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                           HON. BARBARA CUBIN

                               of wyoming

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 12, 1999

  Mrs. CUBIN. Mr. Speaker, one hundred and seventy-nine years ago, on 
February 15, a remarkable woman was born. Her passion for establishing 
equal rights for women led her to champion the rights of others 
dispossessed as well.
  That woman is Susan B. Anthony. Today she is mainly, and rightly, 
remembered as one of our greatest foremothers in the drive for women's 
rights. And this drive for women's rights led her to champion the 
rights of others as well. Anthony was a fierce opponent of slavery. And 
she also championed the rights of those who today have become the most 
dispossessed of all: the unborn. Although she herself was childless, 
she considered amongst her greatest achievements, to have saved the 
lives of the unborn. She said, ``. . . Sweeter even than to have had 
the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help 
bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that 
their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.''

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  Mr. Speaker, it is fitting that we take the anniversary of her birth 
as an opportunity to remember this great woman, Susan B. Anthony, and 
to rededicate ourselves to her life's work of guaranteeing full rights 
for both women and their unborn children.

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