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'States' Rights' Is Also Code for Keeping Women Down

Monday, March 25, 2013

The term has served as a legal code for racism. Today, historian Doris Weatherford writes that state lawmakers have also long imposed legal restrictions on U.S. women. Now it's the framework for the shrinkage of access to reproductive health care and medical privacy.

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