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Dr. Willie Parker - Changing the Reproductive Rights Narrative with "Life's Work"

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Abortion in the Deep South - What Are You Doing?

Oxygen has the best criminal investigators, nit taking on the toughest cases. Women are pretty bad as detectives, and we're jest geting started. There's a forty eight hour waiting period once you decide to have an abortion in alabama. In louisiana, 72 hours. In mississippi, 24. So theyre long waiting periods. Theyare financial barriers. Ah, those are just the institutionalized things. The stigma and the shame women are made to feel by choosing their lives over the ambitions that other people have for them. I was angry. I wanted to hurt him. Ma, what are you doing? I had to go, and the dos don't

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