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These laws protect no one.

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We cannot let abortion rights fade from consciousness as these extreme laws become America’s new normal.

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We live in a society that, as it has been made even more evident across the United States this week, desperately clings to this ideology that a woman’s primary purpose is to be a mother.

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What you are telling me is that his few moments of pleasure are worthy of my entire lifetime of trauma.

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If we’re not progressing, we’re stagnating, and if history has shown us anything, it’s that the powers that be will do whatever they can to silence us.

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If you think the Women’s March on Washington was just about abortion or protesting the outcome of the election, this article is for you.

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I’m so sorry that you attended the Pro Life March in high school without truly understanding what you were marching for. I know you did it mostly because you got out of school for the day, but that doesn’t change the things you chanted or what marching represented.

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I think I am a Pro-life Feminist. And that feels pretty weird to say, considering this widely popular notion going around that feminists can only be feminists if they support abortion.

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Thank you grams. Thank you for paving the way for me. I vote because of you. I made choices about my body because of you. I served on a jury because of you. I am a boss. I can say no to my husband. There are so many things I can do as a woman, because of your contributions to the fight for equality.

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This is such an important point.