Before the House voted to defund Planned Parenthood on Friday, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) revealed on the floor of the House that she herself had had an abortion procedure.Speier revealed her personal story after a graphic description of the procedure was read aloud by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that Speier said “put her stomach in knots.”
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