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On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
To say this. Some of things we agree. I mean, I don't believe in forced abortions, Okay? But I don't believe in forcing women to have children if they don't want to have children.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York

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Lowey expresses her stance against both forced abortions and forced childbirth.

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