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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex

by Cristina Page · 2006

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With a new preface by the author. In the tradition of Backlashand The Morning After, and in a political climate where Roe v. Wade is in serious jeopardy, a young activist reveals that the Pro-Life Movement's real agenda is a war on contraception, family planning, and sexual freedom.

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adult
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medium · 256 pages

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