Democratic Women in White Sit Impassively as Colleagues Cheer Trump’s Call for a Ban on Late-Term Abortion

patrick.goodenough | February 5, 2019
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An enduring image from the 2019 State of the Union address: a bloc of Democratic congresswomen, dressed in “suffragette white,” sitting in stony silence as colleagues cheered President Trump’s request for “Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb.”

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