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On the recordNovember 29, 2021
I`m compelled to speak out because of the real risks of the clock being turned back to those days before Roe vs. Wade, to the days when I was a teenager and had a back-alley abortion in Mexico. I was one of the lucky ones, Madam Chair. A lot of girls and women in my generation didn`t make it. They died from unsafe abortions.
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee
Source
msnbc.com

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Barbara Lee shares her personal experience with abortion to highlight the risks of overturning Roe v. Wade.

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