Constance N. Johnson

Oklahoma State Senate

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Oklahoma State Senator, representing the 48th District; Chair of the State Senate's Black Caucus and Secretary of the Southern National Black Caucus; author of the "Spilled Semen" amendment to her state's "Personhood Bill"

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The National Organization for Women calls it "wonderfully humorous," but Ohio's Democratic State Senator Nina Turner says she's "as serious as a heart attack."

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