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Tim Scott: This bill will not stop any abortion. It will just require an alternative procedure to be used. We have had no answer to…

On the recordJuly 23, 1998
This bill will not stop any abortion. It will just require an alternative procedure to be used. We have had no answer to the question of what that alternative should be. What we should do is defeat the motion to discharge the committee from further consideration of the bill, require the Committee on the Judiciary to in fact consider the bill and the fact that it is unconstitutional and consider alternatives like the Hoyer-Greenwood bill that would prevent the maximum number of abortions consistent with the Supreme Court decisions. I would hope that we would defeat the motion and have the Committee on the Judiciary report a constitutional bill.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Addressing the implications of a bill related to abortion during House floor debate.

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