Beto O'Rourke: “We won abortion access in 1973.”

“But sure enough, it is going to come. And I think one of the big lessons, a rude awakening for me personally is, you know, We won abortion access in 1973. We won full political and Democratic rights in the Voting Rights act in 1965, civil rights in 1964. We think that once we've won these victories, the fight is over.” (05:33–05:38)

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