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Eleanor Holmes Norton: The House just won't let up on American women. Tomorrow features a committee markup to deprive women of their…

On the recordJuly 9, 2012
The House just won't let up on American women. Tomorrow features a committee markup to deprive women of their constitutional right to an abortion. The bill picks on D.C. women because Republicans don't have the nerve to introduce this frontal attack on Roe v. Wade as a nationwide bill. But they make no secret of their purpose. They have already gotten several conservative States to pass similar laws and they seek a Federal precedent. But they can't get a legitimate one. Women will easily see a House-only bill based on bogus science and limited to D.C. for what it is: The latest in a series of attacks on women's reproductive health this term. ____________________
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Jul 9, 2012

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