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On the recordJune 3, 2019
The last few weeks have seen an all-out frontal attack on the right of every woman in this country to access abortion, but this fight is not new, and these laws have not come out of nowhere.
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Madeleine Dean
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Recent abortion restrictions are part of a long-standing battle.

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