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White lawmaker likens abortion limits to civil rights issue

by Associated Press
| June 17, 2020 3:03 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A white Republican lawmaker invoked the name of a black civil rights leader Wednesday as the Mississippi Senate advanced a bill to ban abortion based on the race, sex or genetic anomalies of a fetus.

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