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Tom Coburn: “I would just again reemphasize, nothing in this amendment limits any drug whose primary purpose is not an abortifacient.…”

On the recordJune 24, 1998
I would just again reemphasize, nothing in this amendment limits any drug whose primary purpose is not an abortifacient. There is no limitation on any research of any other drug if its primary purpose is not that of an abortifacient.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Discussing an amendment related to drug research and abortifacients.

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