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Asa Hutchinson: “After 1993, when the President, by Executive memorandum, ordered that military hospitals provide abortions overseas…”

On the recordJune 20, 2000
After 1993, when the President, by Executive memorandum, ordered that military hospitals provide abortions overseas, there was, as the Senator from Washington knows, no physician who volunteered to do that. Where there would be no current doctors volunteering to perform abortions, does it envision the possibility of contracting civilian doctors to perform abortions in military facilities?
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Asa Hutchinson
Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of a policy on military hospitals providing abortions.

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