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On the recordMay 16, 2012
That is just wrong. We hear a lot of rhetoric about freedom, but here we are telling women they have no freedom to make their own decisions.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler criticizes the lack of freedom for women in decision-making.

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