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Thomas Daschle: “Well, that is really the fundamental difference between the two pending bills. We ban abortion; they ban a procedure.…”

On the recordMay 15, 1997
Well, that is really the fundamental difference between the two pending bills. We ban abortion; they ban a procedure. They allow all the other abortion procedures available--dilation and evacuation, induction, hysterotomies--those are still legally available. But what we ban are all of those procedures, all of them, and affix the penalties that we have discussed. So I would say with absolute certainty to the Senator from Maryland that we do everything within the constitutional parameters available to us to stop all abortions.
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Thomas Daschle
South Dakota

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Discussing differences between two abortion-related bills during Senate debate.

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