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Ayanna Pressley: “Banning access to safe, legal abortion is not what the majority of this country wants.”

On the recordNovember 13, 2019
Banning access to safe, legal abortion is not what the majority of this country wants.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley argues that most Americans support abortion access.

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