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Hakeem Jeffries: “This seems to me to be a conflict between those of us who want to make sure that a woman has the freedom to make her own…”

On the recordMay 17, 2022
This seems to me to be a conflict between those of us who want to make sure that a woman has the freedom to make her own healthcare decisions and those who want to criminalize healthcare, jam the women of this country with government-mandated pregnancies, even in the case of rape or incest.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries highlights the conflict over women's healthcare rights versus government control.

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