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Robert Dornan: Not a single doctor, female or male, or nurse in the U.S. military wrote to me not to cut this off. Quite to the…

On the recordJanuary 24, 1996
Not a single doctor, female or male, or nurse in the U.S. military wrote to me not to cut this off. Quite to the contrary, all of the doctors in Europe, every one of them and every anesthesiologist and all of the doctors in the Pacific, said: Chairman Dornan, cut off this killing. We do not want to do it.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing an amendment to cut off abortions in military hospitals.

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