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Barbara Boxer: “I say to my friend, very seriously, if you look a woman in the eye who decides to exercise her legal right to choose…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
I say to my friend, very seriously, if you look a woman in the eye who decides to exercise her legal right to choose, that she has a certain frame of time in which to make that painful, difficult, personal decision with her God, with her doctor, with her family, you do not put her on a plane. That is not an elective procedure. My friend can view it a different way, but I seriously question the fact that this is an elective procedure when a woman finds herself in this circumstance.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of a woman's right to choose during a debate on reproductive rights.

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