Driving the American Dream
A Point of View
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A Few Months After We Left New York
In the years following that trip feminism became, and has remained, a cultural and political loadstone for me. One of my first jobs on returning home was as an abortion counsellor in a pregnancy advisory charity. I'd been on the pill since i was 19, and parliament had effectively legalized abortion in 19 68. Two of us are now dead, and the other two i have lost track of. But that trip has come back to me powerfully with the news of the overturning of roe versus weiged by the us Supreme court,. A ruling which will almost instantly make abortion illegal in some 22 states. By any one's lights, it is a historic decision, and one which
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