Sparks fly in House after Tennessee Democrat calls Canada the 'freest country in the world'

'Your comments are absurd!'

By The Blaze -- Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) —— Bio and Archives July 15, 2022

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Tennessee Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen on Thursday declared that Canada has supplanted the United States as the "freest country in the world" because some states are now preventing women from killing their unborn babies at will. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impact of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Cohen took issue with a pro-life witness' statement that America is the freest country in the world.-- More...

.@RepCohen on America post-Roe: "I love America ... but [Republicans] said we are the freest country in the world ... Well, right now, Canada’s the freest country in the world." pic.twitter.com/f7qVwNtzLy
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 14, 2022

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