"What is the matter with a little congressional activism? When we are faced with a decision that has been criticized from Austin to Boston by legal scholars who themselves may support abortion as a solution to unwanted pregnancies instead of, as I would say, the failure to look for a solution, but who criticize the case as totally unwarranted, are we to be impotent? Are we to say we cannot do anything in the face of 1.5 million abortions a year? If reappointment is important for courts not to be activists, I suggest to you that the carnage involved in the killing of 1.5 million defenseless, voiceless, preborn children is justification for a little congressional activism."
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“Statement of Hon. Henry Hyde, A U.S. Representative from the State of Illinois”, from the Hearings before the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982, pp.916-917
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