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Lindsey Graham: “To deny a low-income woman Medicaid funding, taxpayer funds to have an abortion, if you deny her that, that's a form of…”

On the recordMay 7, 2009
To deny a low-income woman Medicaid funding, taxpayer funds to have an abortion, if you deny her that, that's a form of slavery.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham argues that denying abortion funding is akin to slavery.

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