slavery
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This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear – or not bear – children, including during slavery.
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INSIDE: Sinemanchin ... Leahy And Garland Surgeries ... J.K. Rowling
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INSIDE: That So-Called 'Legitimate Political Discourse' ... Canadian Truckers ... Todd Gitlin
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America must be reminded of the glacial afterlives of slavery, without which the country as we know it would not exist.