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Chris Smith: Absolutely not. Thank you for the question. Let me point out that every bill we have brought--the Partial-Birth Abortion…

On the recordJuly 6, 2016
Absolutely not. Thank you for the question. Let me point out that every bill we have brought--the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, the Born Alive Act, every single piece of legislation that would seek to protect the lives of unborn children--has a specific clause that women are held harmless; that there could be no prosecutions against them.
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Jul 6, 2016

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