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Tag: Rape

Dear Todd Akin: Get out of my body

August 23, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Crime/Violence, Missouri region, Politics, Reproductive rights, Women One comment

Eve Ensler, the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she saw Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” interview.

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Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”

August 20, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region, Politics, Women One comment

As annoying as robo-pollsters can be, it’s often worth picking up the phone, answering the questions, and sticking with it until the end, because

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