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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alex Woodward

Anti-abortion activist claims 10-year-old’s abortion was not an abortion in bizarre House committee testimony

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The president of an anti-abortion legal advocacy group told a House committee this week that abortion care for a 10-year-old girl would not be considered an abortion.

During an exchange with Democratic US Rep Eric Swalwell about restrictions on abortion care, Americans United for Life president Catherine Glenn Foster told the House Judiciary Committee on 14 July that treating a 10-year-old girl for an abortion after she was raped would “impact her life and so therefore it would fall under any exception, it would not be an abortion.”

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