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MadrasT

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31. "A political race, she added, shouldn’t have to come with a trigger warning."

Sat Oct 27, 2012, 02:42 PM

Oct 2012

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As a rape survivor, I am feeling extremely raw from the seemingly incessant rape talk lately. I have been wondering how many others are having a hard time with it and I thank her for speaking to this point.

Great statement, through and through.

I am so sick of hearing men talking about rape I could scream.

Women have a right to choose no matter how they become pregnant. All this rape talk is completely unnecessary and I am fed up with the increasingly fine subdivisions they are trying to attach to abortion.

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