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Tammy Baldwin: “The overturn of Roe took us almost 175 years back in time to…”

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

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We've also seen the freedom to choose, the freedom to access contraception and the freedom to access IVF to start a family stripped away, limited or jeopardized. In my home state of Wisconsin, The overturn of Roe took us almost 175 years back in time to an 1849 near total criminal abortion ban. 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. (24:27–24:40)

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Asserts that the overturn of Roe v. Wade reinstated an 1849 abortion ban in Wisconsin.

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