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Pete Sessions: “Is the Senator aware, being an Alabama official myself and keeping up with these things, that when Attorney General…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2003
Is the Senator aware, being an Alabama official myself and keeping up with these things, that when Attorney General Pryor, not required to do so but following what he believed was the proper procedure, directed the district attorneys who would be enforcing this partial-birth abortion law to construe the statute narrowly, that he was criticized by pro-life groups, sincere, wonderful people, and one went so far as to say that his decision had gutted the partial-birth abortion law?
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of Attorney General Pryor's guidance on partial-birth abortion law enforcement.

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