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On the recordMay 14, 1996
Outrageously, this bill revisits and denies choice for women in the Armed Forces who have made the choice to serve their country. Now what we get for military women is patriotism and abandonment overseas if they happen to need an abortion. Imagine. A woman in the armed service, in Bosnia, or Haiti, who needs an abortion. Are we prepared to guarantee a safe abortion in those countries or in any one of the trouble spots in which women now serve their country? What are we going to do if a woman ends up dead or injured because an abortion was performed in a Third World country where safe abortions are unavailable? Does a woman lose her constitutional right to pay American medical personnel to perform a legal procedure simply by signing up for the armed services? Join the armed service and lose your constitutional rights. That ought to be the tag line on the next commercial.
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James Norton
Ohio
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Addressing the implications of a bill affecting abortion rights for women in the Armed Forces.

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