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Steve King: “What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and…”

On the recordAugust 13, 2019
What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

King suggests a controversial theory regarding the implications of abortion in cases of rape and incest.

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