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On the recordMarch 15, 2011
Especially for women because we're always cast as the ones that really want abortion, and it's the men that don't want it, but you're telling me that 70 percent of the women in that December 2009 study adamantly opposed Federal funding of abortion under the health care bill?
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Al Schmidt
Pennsylvania
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Mar 15, 2011

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The speaker addresses women's perspectives on abortion funding in health care.

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