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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Kentucky politician sparks outrage with comments on Jewish women’s sex in error-laden argument against abortion

Kentucky State Legislature

A Republican lawmaker from Kentucky faced swift backlash after he made comments about Jewish women and the Holocaust during a debate about anti-abortion legislation.

Representative Danny Bentley was discussing Mifepristone, pills that are used to induce abortion, and claimed falsely that they were developed during World War II under the name Zyklon B, which was the gas used to kill Jewish people at concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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