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Tom Harkin: “The Senate finds that-- (1) abortion has been a legal and constitutionally protected medical procedure throughout the…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2003
The Senate finds that-- (1) abortion has been a legal and constitutionally protected medical procedure throughout the United States since the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113 (1973)); and (2) the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade established constitutionally based limits on the power of States to restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy. (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that-- (1) the decision of the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113 (1973)) was appropriate and secures an important constitutional right; and (2) such decision should not be overturned.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Introducing an amendment concerning the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.

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