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Abortion Bans or Democracy — You Can’t Have Both
Controlling people’s bodies requires trashing representative government and violating every individual right.
Judith Levine
Judith Levine is a contributing writer at The Intercept. A journalist and personal essayist on sex, justice, and emotions in politics, she has written five books, most recently “The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence,” co-authored with Erica R. Meiners (Verso, 2020).
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