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Tammy Baldwin: “Hundreds of thousands of couples... rely on the legal tools…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin on abortion: ‘2024 will be critical for restoring our rights and freedoms’

Published | Video Starts at 03:35

We fought in legislatures, we fought ultimately in the Supreme Court. And in the obergefell ruling in 2015, that right of marriage equality was granted. And now there are Hundreds of thousands of couples... rely on the legal tools that are conferred in a marriage to protect their families. to protect their spouse, their children. And people were terrified that these were going to get ripped away after we saw 50 years nearly of precedent overturned by the Supreme Court in overturning Roe versus Wade. (03:35–03:45)

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Asserts that many couples depend on marriage rights for family protection.

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