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Barack Obama: “Women should be allowed to make their own decisions about their own health.”

On the recordApril 25, 2013
Women should be allowed to make their own decisions about their own health.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Planned Parenthood National Conference

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