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Burgess Owens: “Roe v. Wade cost us 23 million innocent lives like the pro-slavery Democrat Dred Scott decision in 1857.”

On the recordJuly 13, 2022
Roe v. Wade cost us 23 million innocent lives like the pro-slavery Democrat Dred Scott decision in 1857.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Owens compares Roe v. Wade to the Dred Scott decision, arguing it was flawed.

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