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On the recordOctober 14, 2009
No one, no one in the United States of America, in order to get health insurance should ever, ever be coerced into getting a sterilization.
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Mikulski opposes coerced sterilization for health insurance access.

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