Todd Akin and The Second Sex

At The New Yorker, Judith Thurman argues that America’s leading Republican politicians want set the clock back 40 years on women’s reproductive rights. “If politicians like Todd Akin and Paul Ryan prevail, it will be a crime again, under all circumstances, along with some forms of contraception that can spare women from a hard choice that they have to live with, one way or another, for the rest of their lives.” 

 

Read at The New Yorker

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