Harold Volkmer: “Mr. Speaker, the courts have decided, under the 1995 law, the States…”

On the recordJanuary 5, 1996

Mr. Speaker, the courts have decided, under the 1995 law, the States are required to fund the Medicaid abortions for those provisions. That is the status of it right now. In the 1996 law that we passed in this House, we said that the States do not have to do that. This is going backwards. This is saying that the States will still, my State, which is a pro-life State, will still have to do abortions for these provisions. Anybody that votes for this cannot be pro-life.

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Harold Volkmer

Democratic · Missouri

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Discussing the implications of Medicaid funding for abortions under state law.

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