Political Quotes

“for years radical antiabortion groups have been denying women's rights and endangering women's health by blockading family planning clinics. This past year they stepped up their attacks. Clinics were bombed with noxious butyrica acid and savaged with fire. One doctor was wounded in Kansas and another shot dead in Florida. The women who make up the majority of clinic clients could not miss the threat: ``Give up the right to make your own health choices or else.'' They have refused to succumb. Instead, clinic attacks sparked national outrage and demands that the brutal ideologically-based violence be stopped. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act can make the violence stop by imposing tough Federal penalties on those who obstruct and harass people entering clinics. It is carefully crafted to protect the first amendment rights of protesters by explicitly allowing peaceful protest--from picketing and praying to speeches and literature distribution--as long as that protest does not physically block those trying to enter or exit a clinic. Scores of American women turn to family planning clinics each year for cancer screenings and pap smears, for treatment of reproductive disorders and yes, sometimes for abortions. All they are asking from us is protection of their right to enter such clinics without harassment, without abuse and without fear. Please do not let them down. Support passage of the conference report of the Freedom of Access to Clinics Entrances Act.”