“Women in THIS country are in poverty, partly because they are denied the resources to determine when they have children and how many they have. Women in THIS country are subjected to violence because they are a part of a society that uses a rubric to determine how "worthy" they are of comfort, freedom, and peace. Women in THIS country are unsafe, used as bargaining chips, used as objects, used as punching bags, used, used, used.”
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