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In the past three years, extremist legislators at both the state and federal levels have done all they can to push women back to the days when rates of unintended pregnancy, infant mortality, and maternal mortality were high and desperate women died from unsafe abortions.
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Women represent nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers and a woman working full time, year round at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour earns just $14,500 — nearly $4,000 below the poverty line for a family of three.
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Just as the people protesting outside have a right to their free speech, the people entering the facility have a right to refuse to listen to that speech and not have it pressed upon them.
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There’s a lot to be said for being able to trust that your community respects your capacity and your right to plan your own family and make your own health care decisions.
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They assume that women’s groups won’t care if Stand Your Ground endangers African-Americans, as long as women are thrown a bone.
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