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Robert Dornan: “I want to pick up on my 5 minutes last night where I said I would read in totality one of the most amazing letters in…”

On the recordApril 18, 1996
I want to pick up on my 5 minutes last night where I said I would read in totality one of the most amazing letters in American history from any Christian cleric or Christian leaders; in this case, they are Catholic cardinals, every one of them an archbishop, joined by the bishop who is the head of the National Catholic Conference of Bishops against Mr. Clinton for his veto of an overwhelming, overwhelmingly passed bill in both the House and the Senate, a little tighter in the Senate, but overwhelmingly passed here, against execution-style partial-birth abortion of fetuses that are children and babies in the process of being delivered that absolutely could live outside the womb.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing a letter from Catholic leaders opposing President Clinton's veto of a bill on partial-birth abortion.

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