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Henry Hyde: “I agree with the gentleman from Wisconsin completely. It is ironic that in a labor dispute in front of a coal mine in…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1994
I agree with the gentleman from Wisconsin completely. It is ironic that in a labor dispute in front of a coal mine in West Virginia it is worth one's life to try to cross that picket line. There have been people shot. I have the clippings in my office. The Greyhound bus strike was one of the most violent in history, and then there is the New York Daily News strike a few years ago in New York. But none of those people become Federal felons. It is only if they are sitting in front of an abortion clinic in somebody's way, clutching their rosary, or praying, or trying to counsel somebody not to exterminate their child. Then they become a felon.
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Henry Hyde
Illinois
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Discussing the disparity in legal consequences for labor disputes versus protests at abortion clinics.

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