Commentary
Unbearable: Trump’s Travel Ban Against Women of Child-bearing Age
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Officers are empowered with broad discretion to deny women visas to travel to the US because of their bodies and their natural ability to have babies.
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Officers are empowered with broad discretion to deny women visas to travel to the US because of their bodies and their natural ability to have babies.
It’s painful to admit that I have fallen short, missed the mark—that I have not been a better ally to women in the struggle to maintain their reproductive rights.
Being forced to have a child against ones will is a form of female enslavement.
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