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Barbara Boxer: Let me say to my friend, he keeps referring to partial-birth abortions: ``There would be less partial-birth abortions.''…

On the recordMarch 10, 2003
Let me say to my friend, he keeps referring to partial-birth abortions: ``There would be less partial-birth abortions.'' I would defy my friend to show me where there is a list of so-called partial-birth abortions. Because there are none. This is a made-up term. I will read to you again--because having a debate about partial- birth abortion, I do not know that you take care of these women on a daily basis, as do physicians, but I want to answer my friend.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Addressing the debate on partial-birth abortion during a discussion on reproductive rights.

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