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Democrat: Abortion is ‘modern-day genocide’

By John Gage
Published June 3, 2019 7:26pm ET
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Democrat: Abortion is ‘modern-day genocide’
CORRECTS JOHN MILKOVICH TO D-SHREVEPORT - Sen. John Milkovich, D-Shreveport, left, and Rep. Valarie Hodges, R-Denham Springs, speak outside the State Capitol, after the House passed Milkovich's 'fetal heartbeat' bill that would ban abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy, if upheld by the courts, sending it to the governor's desk without exceptions for victims of rape and incest, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Baton Rouge, La. Hodges handled the bill on the House side for its passage. Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, supports the ban and intends to sign it into law. | (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)

Louisiana state Rep. Katrina Jackson defended her state’s new abortion restrictions, calling abortion “genocide.”

“I think it mitigates our race’s voting power, it hurts our race’s power in the census. I really consider it to be modern-day genocide,” Jackson, an African American Democrat, told NBC News on Monday.

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