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  Frederique Rapier

  

  How Americans lost their right to abortions: a victory for conservatives, 50 years in the making

  Guardian US - Jessica Glenza

  Why, and how, a decision opposed by a majority of Americans came about has everything to do with political power, experts say The short version of how Americans lost their right to terminate a pregnancy might be summed up in one name: Trump. The real estate tycoon and reality-TV star first shocked …

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  Frederique Rapier

  

  US supreme court overturns abortion rights, upending Roe v Wade

  The Guardian - Jessica Glenza and Martin Pengelly in New York, and Sam Levin in Los Angeles

  Biden calls ruling in pivotal case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization ‘a tragic error’ The supreme court has ruled there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, upending the landmark Roe v Wade case from nearly 50 years ago in a rare reversal of long-settled law that …

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  Frederique Rapier

  

  Queens of Mexican Cuisine dish about restaurants, gender and mole

  Al Jazeera

  Keith Dannemiller for Al Jazeera America MEXICO CITY — When bureaucrats here ordered the closure of the feted restaurant Aguila y Sol in 2008, the A-list executive chef, Martha Ortiz, smelled a rat. The pretext was that the eatery’s 90 parking spaces fell short by one spot. Ortiz, however, suspected …

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  Frederique Rapier

  

  'Feminists Are Too Busy Picking First-World Fights To See What's Under Their Noses'

  lbc.co.uk

  Maajid Nawaz says feminists are too busy "picking first-world fights" and neglecting the "minorities within minorities". On his Sunday afternoon LBC …

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  Frederique Rapier

  Mar 4, 2017
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  Frederique Rapier

  

  Survivors of Wartime Rape Are Refusing to Be Silenced

  TIME

  By Aryn Baker | Photographs by Lynsey Addario for TIME First they shot her husband. Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her hands next, Mary didn’t think it could get any worse. Mary and her family were members of the Nuer tribe in South …