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Lucy McBath: “The same medicine used to treat my failed pregnancies is the…”

Featuring: Lucy McBath, Democratic | U.S. House Georgia, 6th Congressional District

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Georgia Congressmember Lucy McBath Shares Personal Story on Reproductive Rights and Miscarriage

Published | Video Starts at 05:01

Or would you have put me behind bars after my stillbirth, after I was forced to carry a dead fetus for weeks, after asking God if I was ever going to be able to raise a child? And I asked because The same medicine used to treat my failed pregnancies is the same medicine states like Texas would make illegal. I ask because if Alabama makes abortion murder, does it make miscarriage manslaughter? I ask because I want to know if the next woman who has a miscarriage at three months, if she will be forced to carry her dead fetus to term. (05:01–05:08)

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Asserts that the medicine used for treating miscarriages could be made illegal in states like Texas.

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