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The Family Roe: An American Story

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Doctor Jefferson's Personal Experience Prefigures Much of What the Pro Life Movement Has Been Like

i found an fbi file that showed what she suffered as a result of that intense mesogony and raceism that torpedoed her career. She comes to feel that abortion ought to never be allowed, never be legal. It is to be considered murder from conception, with no exceptions for rape or incest. And i examined that when she was a doctor the fact, and in the 19 sixties, she had graduated from harvard medical school. That wasn't enough. The first african american woman to graduate from harvard Medical School. If a state law says that you ought to perform a bortion, then perform abortion. I thought this was horrible.

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