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James Lankford: “In the United States there are nurses that had been fired…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Human dignity and public policy

Published | Video Starts at 14:08

And I'm gonna go, well, let me talk to you a little bit about conscience protections, because in the United States, supposedly we have freedom of conscience, but it doesn't actually exist. Because In the United States there are nurses that had been fired, though when they were hired, they were told they would never have to do an abortion. But when they ran short of staff, they moved the nurse over to that area and forced her to be a part of taking the life of a child when … (14:08–14:17)

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Asserts that nurses in the U.S. were fired after being told they wouldn't have to perform abortions.

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