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Maybe if there were fewer laws,
she wouldn’t have had to break them. Given how hard it was for her to get a legal abortion, why should she be punished for having an illegal one?
This is what it means to be human, Bex thought. We are all
just canvases for our scars.
“Sometimes we have to make choices when we don’t like any of the options,”
Warriors, every one of them. Every day, he was reminded of their grit, their courage in the face of obstacles, the quiet grace with which they shouldered their troubles. They were stronger than any men he’d ever known. For sure, they were stronger than the male politicians who were so terrified of them that they designed laws specifically to keep women down.
Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.
