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On the recordDecember 1, 2021
When does the life of a woman and putting her at risk enter the calculus? Meaning, right now, forcing women who are poor, and that`s 75 percent of the population, and much higher percentage of those women in Mississippi, who elect abortions before viability, they are put at a tremendously greater risk of medical complications and ending their life.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York
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msnbc.com

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Justice Sotomayor discusses the risks to women, particularly those who are poor, in states with restrictive abortion laws.

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