‘Hell, no!’

NEWS: Draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v Wade leaked. 

“Hell no! In Illinois, we trust women. We cannot let their most profound and personal rights be violated.”

“For a party that claims to be about freedom, Republicans can’t wait to deprive millions of women the right to choose.”

—J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, “Illinois, Chicago reaction to U.S. Supreme Court draft overturning Roe v. Wade comes quickly, and with fury,” The Chicago Tribune, May 2, 2022.

 

  

• Editorial Comment: Their bodies, their selves.

 

 

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Blue Moon, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Utah State University
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