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On the recordMay 17, 2022
Overturning Roe would remove from women the power to decide the fundamental question of whether to carry or terminate a pregnancy.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler warns that overturning Roe v. Wade would strip women of their reproductive rights.

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