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Henry Hyde: “Well, because they are zeroing in on abortion. Somehow abortion is the singular issue that raises their temperature.…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1994
Well, because they are zeroing in on abortion. Somehow abortion is the singular issue that raises their temperature. They do not get excited about violence on a picket line if it is a labor dispute, or if it is antinuclear people, or if it is animal rights people, or if it is any of those causes that people get involved in passionately. It is only the prolifers that wave a red flag, and all balance, all perspective, all proportion goes out the window. Mr. Speaker, that is kind of a psychological reaction that perhaps a professor of abnormal psychology could explain, but I cannot.
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Henry Hyde
Illinois
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Discussing the emotional reactions surrounding the abortion debate.

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