[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1226]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      TRIBUTE TO SUSAN B. ANTHONY

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, 188 years after her birth, Susan B. 
Anthony is still remembered as a prominent and influential figure in 
our Nation's history.
  One of the greatest foremothers in the drive for women's rights, she 
became a leader in the fight for equal rights for all.
  Mr. Speaker, today marks the anniversary of Susan B. Anthony's birth. 
We know her as a fierce opponent of slavery, who also championed to 
protect the rights of those who today have become the most dispossessed 
in our society, the unborn.
  Susan B. Anthony considered one of her greatest achievements to have 
saved the lives of the unborn. She said ``sweeter ever than to have had 
the joy of caring for children of my own has it been 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.''
  To Susan B. Anthony, as well as all the early suffragists, the rights 
of unborn children could never and should never have been separated 
from the promotion of women's rights.
  As today marks the 180th anniversary of her birth, I ask that we 
remember her efforts to secure equality for all and to rededicate 
ourselves to her life's work of guaranteeing full rights for both women 
and their unborn children.

                          ____________________