Tammy Baldwin: “A ban so cruel that it allows no exceptions for rape or…”

“A ban so archaic that it was passed into law a decade before the start of the Civil war and over 70 years before women would have the right to vote. A ban so cruel that it allows no exceptions for rape or incest and could lead to the criminal prosecution of our doctors and nurses for providing life saving health care. However, I have never seen Wisconsinites more unified than at this moment in time. If folks thought that we were going to simmer down about the issue, they were absolutely wrong.” (24:52–25:06)

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