[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10872-10873]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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    THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF ATTACKS ON WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, the House just won't let up on American 
women. Tomorrow features a committee markup to deprive women of their 
constitutional right to an abortion. The bill picks on D.C. women 
because Republicans don't have the nerve to introduce this frontal 
attack on Roe v. Wade as a nationwide bill. But they

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make no secret of their purpose. They have already gotten several 
conservative States to pass similar laws and they seek a Federal 
precedent. But they can't get a legitimate one.
  Women will easily see a House-only bill based on bogus science and 
limited to D.C. for what it is: The latest in a series of attacks on 
women's reproductive health this term.

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