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 "I
wanted to be a boy. Desperately wanted to be a boy. I thought boys had
more fun. I felt like a boy in the way that our society views genders. I
liked blue and green more than pink and purple. I remember sitting up
as high as I could climb in our huge mulberry tree, bow & arrow in
hand, trying to kiss my elbow (a neighbor lady had told me that if I
could accomplish this, that I would turn into a boy, which was what I
wanted in that moment, as a child, more than anything.)"
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 "I
wish that someone had alerted me to the harshness of the experience,
acknowledged the layers of regret that built and fell away as the months
and years passed. I want my daughters to have the option of safe and
legal abortion, of course. I just don’t want them to have to use it."
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 China's
one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys means that the
world's most populous country has a severe shortage of women. That means
a severe shortage of brides.
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 Sometimes
it's tentative and other times it's brazen, but at some point people
almost always ask if my husband and I got pregnant on purpose.
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 The University of Chicago released a how-to guide to students explaining how to get an abortion.
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 "Her
name is Kendall Jones. She’s a cheerleader, hunter, and, according to
the internet, a vile scumbag who deserves to die a slow and painful
death."
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 How did Planned Parenthood help make one of the world's most famous supermodels pro-life? The answer might surprise you.
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 This is Mindy: And this is how I destroyed her life by making her a porn star.
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