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Steve King should go back where he came from

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published August 14, 2019 9:01pm ET
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Steve King should go back where he came from
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, listens to a question during a news conference, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. King affirmed his belief that abortion should be outlawed with no exceptions for rape or incest. King faced criticism for his comment Aug. 14 that questioned whether there would be "any population of the world left" if not for births due to rape and incest. | (Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Steve King should go back to where he came from.

The Republican congressman from western Iowa would do the country a great service if he left Congress, since he apparently doesn’t know how to stop talking. Speaking on Wednesday about Alabama’s abortion ban, which makes no exceptions for rape and incest, King argued that rape and incest made the world what it is today. And … what, that’s somehow supposed to make them a good thing?

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