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Jamie Raskin: Now they've grown a little more reticent and evasive about voicing their determination to ban all abortions everywhere…

On the recordSeptember 28, 2022
Now they've grown a little more reticent and evasive about voicing their determination to ban all abortions everywhere in the country since the people of Kansas, by 20 points, massively repudiated the dangerous extremism of the Republican position.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin notes the GOP's hesitance to openly support abortion bans after public backlash.

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