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On the recordFebruary 11, 2020
Last year, a U.S. district court judge in Mississippi ruled that Mississippi's laws, "unequivocally," violated the Fourteenth Amendment and found that the law demonstrated that Mississippi was, "bent on controlling women and minorities," and that the state professed interest in women's health was nothing more than, "gaslighting."
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Ben Ray Luján
Democratic · New Mexico

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Lujan discusses a court ruling on Mississippi's abortion laws as discriminatory.

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