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Rosa DeLauro: “Are you opposed to allowing them to take a pill or to get an IUD in cases where their lives depend on it?”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
Are you opposed to allowing them to take a pill or to get an IUD in cases where their lives depend on it?
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

DeLauro questions the moral opposition to contraceptives for women in non-religious jobs.

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