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Glenn Grothman: “In Wisconsin, abortion had been illegal since I believe it…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Glenn Grothman interviewed by Brannon Howse

Published | Video Starts at 19:11

Or too much of the public is not looking at it that way. They're just saying, I'm going to go through a problem delivering this baby, so I'm the only one who counts here. In Wisconsin, abortion had been illegal since I believe it was 1848, might have been 1849. Okay. That was a time before we had ultrasounds. Right. That was before medical care was as advanced as it is today. But even then people knew over that whatever it would have been 160 year period. (19:11–19:19)

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