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Trump nominee floors senator at FDA hearing: 'Birth control is not an abortion'

President Donald Trump's pick to run the Food and Drug Administration left Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) briefly speechless by declining to say whether an intrauterine device causes an abortion.Heidi Overton, a physician and White House domestic policy adviser, appeared before the Senate Health, Educatio...

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