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On the recordJanuary 24, 2017
What this bill is about is taking women who can't afford to get an abortion and not allowing them to use taxpayer- funded money to get it. The assumption on the other side is they won't have money, because people who are in dire straits won't have money to get it, and therefore they will have these 2 million children they are talking about. What we are talking about--let's make it clear--is they are talking about poor women who they think can't afford to get to a doctor or to an abortion provider and force them to have children that they can't have because of economics. So women, poor women, do not forgive them for they know what they do. They are trying to put you at their mercy and make you have children because you are poor. If they get their ultimate desire--and that is the repeal of Roe v. Wade--then poor women will not be able to get an abortion, but wealthy women will. Trump said, yes, if they outlaw abortion, go to another State. Easy to say when you are a billionaire, but not a thing to say to the middle class and poor women of this country whom they want to force, through their economic disparities, to bear children.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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