2012-01-27

Fwd: FW: E-Newsletter 01-24-2012

From Eleanor Holmes Norton:

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Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 07:44
Subject: Fwd: FW: E-Newsletter 01-24-2012


Opposing a New Anti-Home-Rule, Anti-Choice, Anti-Federalist Bill. Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, has introduced a bill that would ban all abortions in the District after 20 weeks, with very limited exceptions.  Only one week into the second session of the 112th Congress, House Republicans have broadened congressional attacks on the District to include all women who live here with the "District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act." The bill would prohibit such abortions in only one local jurisdiction, the District of Columbia.  We do not intend to succumb to the insatiable Republican obsession with interfering with the rights of women in our city.  There can be no justification for denying the federal taxpaying residents of the nation's capital the same constitutional rights as other American citizens.



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