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Mandela Barnes: “If she was forced to carry to term, I definitely would not…”

Featuring: Mandela Barnes, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 05:18

… this issue with a roundtable and I was like, yeah, my mother, she had a complicated pregnancy and she had to terminate the pregnancy. Her life was at risk. And If she was forced to carry to term, I definitely would not have been here. because I know my mother. She would not have tried that again because the experience would have been too traumatic for her. But it's not even just my own personal experience. (05:18–05:25)

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Asserts that if his mother had been forced to carry the pregnancy to term, Mandela Barnes would not have been born.

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