[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 14 (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              SUSAN B. ANTHONY--A GREAT AMERICAN CHAMPION

  (Mrs. CUBIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CUBIN. Mr. Speaker, Susan B. Anthony is well remembered as one 
of our Nation's greatest champions, not just of the rights of women, 
but the rights of all Americans. In addition to her work for women's 
rights, she was also a leading voice speaking out against the evils of 
slavery.
  She considered her work in turning women away from abortion as some 
of the most important in her life. She declared that amongst her 
greatest joys was to have helped ``bring about a better state of things 
for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be 
willed away from them.''
  Today, on the 180th birthday of her death, I rise in honor of this 
great human rights crusader and to bring her wisdom to bear on one of 
the great human rights issues of our day, the right of preborn children 
to live.
  Susan B. Anthony was clear: abortion for her was nothing less than, 
quote-unquote, ``child murder,'' and she devoted much of her energies 
toward making women independent of what she termed the ``burden'' of 
abortion.
  As we celebrate this day, let us also recommit ourselves to her goal 
of relieving women of the burden of abortion.

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