In this era of beleaguered feminism and receding female rights, anything that contributes to a woman, rather than the state, controlling her own body is welcome. Because currently women are losing rights – not just the absence of Roe v. Wade, but possibly the right to out-of-state travel during pregnancy, the right to decent maternal care and collection of medical pregnancy statistics (now banned in Idaho, a state that apparently despises women) and, in some supposedly left-wing quarters, even the right to be called a woman. So the political right hates women, while a segment of the left denies women even exist. More
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