So, in other words, if the decision to go ahead--you could have the situation where you have a fetus that is not viable, and that it could--by going to term, you would make it so that the mother could not have babies again, it would affect her reproductive system, that if this law became--if this bill became law, that mother would have to sacrifice not being able to have babies again?
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Franken questions the implications of a proposed abortion law on women's reproductive health.
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If we lose this one, if we allow this to overturn elections, elected officials, elected Republican officials to overturn elections, our democracy goes away.
Mitch McConnell is cynical. Mitch McConnell is in this, and the Republican Party right now doesn`t stand for anything, I think, other than maybe for low tax cuts for their donors.
This is an existential threat to our democracy. If we lose our democracy, it`s - we lose everything.
This immediately brings to question the filibuster and I was encouraged that Joe Manchin in this audio that was released the other day by the intercept, has said that he is open to a modification of the filibuster.





