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Diana DeGette: “186 Congresspeople who serve in Congress right now have…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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Congresswoman Diana DeGette Discusses Project 2025 and Reproductive Rights

Published | Video Starts at 02:12

You saw this in the wonderful videotape that Mr. Huffman showed where Steve Scalise, who's the Republican leader, said that this is only a start and he means it. 186 Congresspeople who serve in Congress right now have co-sponsored legislation already in Congress that says that the moment a sperm and an egg meet, that is a person. And what that means is all abortions would be banned. All abortions, no exceptions, Life, incest, health, anything from inception. It would mean IVF would be banned. (02:12–02:27)

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Asserts that 186 Congresspeople have co-sponsored legislation defining personhood from conception.

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