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Chris Smith: “I had a hearing in 2016. I had several hearings. One of them was with Mara Hvistendahl, who said in 2013 that there were…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 2022
I had a hearing in 2016. I had several hearings. One of them was with Mara Hvistendahl, who said in 2013 that there were over 160 million missing girls in Asia--160 million as a direct result of sex-selection abortion.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith references a statistic about missing girls due to sex-selection abortion.

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