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Elissa Slotkin: “We could get Roe on our ballot and then voted for it and…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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A Book Never Shot Anyone (with Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Cara Erskine)

Published | Video Starts at 36:42

Michigan had a ballot proposal already ready, already cleared through the lawyers ready to go, and we got 800,000 signatures in eight weeks. It's nearly one out of every ten michiganders, so that We could get Roe on our ballot and then voted for it and codified it. right? So if we had just been sitting there and said, oh, woah, is me, we're about to lose the right to an abortion here because we're a full ban … (36:42–36:46)

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Asserts that Michigan successfully placed Roe v. Wade protections on the ballot and codified them.

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