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Robert Dornan: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is changing his vote. At least one has let his conscience kick in. He wrote a speech…

On the recordSeptember 12, 1996
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is changing his vote. At least one has let his conscience kick in. He wrote a speech titled ``Too Close to Infanticide.'' Great cardinals and bishops and Protestant leaders have said it is infanticide, and that is what I say. Eighty percent of the infant is there, You are holding the mother in distress while you take its brains out and kill it right in front of your eyes. That is infanticide.
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing the moral implications of abortion during a floor speech.

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