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Mike Quigley: “Banning sex-selective abortions has already been tried in various countries around the world, and what expert…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2011
Banning sex-selective abortions has already been tried in various countries around the world, and what expert agencies... have found is that, rather than preventing such abortions, bans simply result, 'in a greater demand for clandestine procedures.'
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Mike Quigley
Democratic · Illinois

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Quigley points out that banning sex-selective abortions leads to unsafe practices.

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