September 16, 2022
By Jeff Barker
“When you look at the state of Maryland, people here recognized, fortunately, that Maryland was sort of leading the way in terms of protecting those [abortion] rights by laws that were passed by the General Assembly,” said U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Baltimore, who is seeking his second full term since returning to Congress to represent the 7th Congressional District.
But Mfume said the GOP’s latest attacks on abortion rights would bypass states’ laws, such as Maryland’s, and pose “a grave concern.”
Future such abortion restrictions, he said, would “disproportionately affect those women who are Black and brown and white and Asian in this country who are not economically in a position to assist themselves.”
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