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Mark Pocan: “The fact that we're living by 170 plus year old law, that…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty & Justice for Some #71 Protecting Women's Choice w/ Planned Parenthood's McGill Johnson

Published | Video Starts at 12:10

But it's pretty shocking for people to think a state like Wisconsin, which I don't think of as, you know, some of the states sometimes that are overly reactionary on every single issue, but The fact that we're living by 170 plus year old law, that shows how awful that decision was. Yeah. And I think it's really important to show the complexity. Right. This isn't just like, you know, a state that just completely bans outright and you know, the Supreme Court did take that action to not ban the procedure. (12:10–12:17)

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Asserts that living under an old law highlights the negative impact of the Dobbs decision.

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