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Rhiannon12866

(205,264 posts) Fri Oct 1, 2021, 04:15 AM Oct 2021

Congresswoman Shares Painful Past To Support Reproductive Rights After Texas Abortion Ban - TRMS

Rep. Barbara Lee talks with Rachel Maddow about her personal discomfort with sharing the story of the back alley abortion she had as a teenaged girl, and why she felt it was important to share her story publicly. Aired on 09/30/2021.

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Congresswoman Shares Painful Past To Support Reproductive Rights After Texas Abortion Ban - TRMS (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 OP

she was very lucky to have such a supportive mum Skittles Oct 2021 #1

That's what I thought, too. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #2

Skittles

(153,153 posts)

1. she was very lucky to have such a supportive mum

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Fri Oct 1, 2021, 04:37 AM

Oct 2021

helped to make her who she is today

Rhiannon12866

(205,264 posts)

2. That's what I thought, too.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 1, 2021, 04:48 AM

Oct 2021

She started awfully young, I looked her up and it said she was married and divorced by the time she was 20 - and she has 2 successful grown sons. She really is one amazing lady, she's done so much that counts in her life.

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