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Bill Clinton: “It is specifically in order to protect those liberties that I signed into law legislation that makes it a Federal crime…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1998
It is specifically in order to protect those liberties that I signed into law legislation that makes it a Federal crime to interfere with a woman exercising her constitutional right to visit a women's health center.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Statement on the Bombing of a Family Planning Clinic in Birmingham

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