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On the recordApril 29, 2019
This will just grant unfettered rights to abortion, I think it is, obviously, a specious argument, a false argument.
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Madeleine Dean
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Dean dismisses arguments against the ERA related to abortion rights.

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